| 单词 | cello |
| 例句 | June resorted to her cello, the way she always did when sorrow came along. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled my cello out a few times, played along. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z June played us a gloomy-sounding song on the cello while August retold black Mary’s story start to finish. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a bright yellow shirt with a custom-cut tie shaped like a cello. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Then, on the drive home, as Gramps and I were approaching the California-Oregon border, I just had this sudden flash—a vision of me lugging a cello through New York City. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I am sitting with my cello, the one Mom and Dad gave me after my first recital. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, to replace its interweaving but independent voices with a more unified, streamlined sound, with the keyboard and cello locked together supportively, underpinning the sparring interplay of the two violins above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Yes, she was that good on the cello. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z June wedged the cello between her legs and played “Amazing Grace,” and the Daughters of Mary got to their feet and swayed together like colorful seaweed on the ocean floor. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “On Thursday night, revenge will be ours. Timothy Bartlett shall transform into the Great Timdini! His magic act will crush Ainsley’s cello piece.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z But when I get closer, I see the metal glint of a silver bracelet with tiny cello and guitar charms. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d always believed that the cello was a solitary instrument, but now I was starting to wonder if maybe I was the solitary one. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And as if to seal the deal, instead of learning to play electric guitar, I’d gone and chosen the cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I place it Between mv legs Like a cello And thump The strings. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She drags her cello off to a darkened corner to warm up. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He says I have bionic hands, that this is why I’m such a good cello player. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a friend who played upon the cello. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z She could barely play the cello, because it meant turning loose of his hand. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached with my left hand and caressed Adam’s head as if it were the scroll of my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ainsley plows up the steps, looking for someone else to bulldoze with her cello case. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Bridge’s mom tilted her head toward the cello case leaning against the closet mirror. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z We sit for a moment, the snow hiding the other side of the street, a cello solo thrumming from the speakers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I reached for the bow and brushed it across his hips, where I imagined the bridge of the cello would be. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was about to shake my head, to reaffirm that my cello had no place among the jamming guitars, no place in the punk-rock world. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In comes the cello, like a heart bleeding. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in third grade, I’d wandered over to the cello in music class—it looked almost human to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The cellos made the hills glow red, and the leaves and grass were tipped with a soft pale green as the violins began their song. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z When a note was for violin or ’cello or flute she would write the name of the instrument to show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Putting me in the perfect position to, hopefully, make everybody forget how brilliant she is on the cello and, maybe, just maybe, make this my night to shine! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The track shifts in one smooth measure—the sound of electric violins, cellos, and a deep, reverberating beat fills the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The truth was, I could no sooner quit cello cold turkey than I could stop breathing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A cello was a big violin that sat on the floor. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, looking as human as that cello I’d been drawn to two years earlier. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If I quote him, my star projector act will be as classy as a cello solo! Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I can feel the pulsing of its great taproot, the howling cello in its trunk. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z That man has a way of making the cello sound like a crying woman one minute, a laughing child the next. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This time, her mom was away, playing her cello at another wedding. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I can feel the vibration amplified in the belly of the ship, like the menacing tone of a cello. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Yo-Yo Ma continues to play, and it’s like the piano and cello are being poured into my body, the same way that the IV and blood transfusions are. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It isn’t even that my cello is at school or that I could stay home and watch TV or sleep. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And even though you wouldn’t think it, the cello didn’t sound half bad with all those guitars. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When we were all seated, she lit the candle and June played the cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A Man Ray photograph burst onto the screen before them: a voluptuous woman, her back transformed into a cello by two painted f-holes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z While we ate, we heard June upstairs in her room playing the cello like something had died. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After five minutes, Pauline twitched her thumb, and the cello woman was replaced by an Ansel Adams landscape, Mount McKinley glowering over a lake of pure white. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She’s dressed in a black gown, cradling her cello and laughing with her head tossed back. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z We took turns challenging each other to cello duels, each trying to out-crazy-play the other. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “A couple of kids quit the a cappella group,” he says, “but that’s to be expected. One girl needs to focus more on her cello lessons.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “But everybody always talks about what a great cello player she was.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z She could sing, play the cello, and even juggle maracas. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Every day in every way!” shouts Ainsley as she charges up the steps with her cello case. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The flute climbed again and plucked cellos sounded below and the sea crept in and in toward the beach. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But Mom played the cello. I didn’t play the cello. That was Ainsley, Dad....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z When I first started playing the cello, Dad was still playing drums in his band, though that all started to taper off a couple years later when Teddy arrived. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Amazing things happen when you stop hiding behind that hulking beast,” he said, gesturing to my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was a baby and going through his nightly fussy period, he’d only calm down after I played him a lullaby on my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They are all musical; the father plays the violin; the oldest son, the cello. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jonathan, who is Korean and plays the cello, comes from L.A. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Little poufs and tables of knickknacks spring up like mushrooms, and the walls are lined with Stratocasters and Flying Vs, violins, an assortment of harps, one stout cello propped up in the corner. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The cello didn’t exactly get the crowd going, but she was good at it. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z June sliced her bow across the cello strings. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Between them they pulled out pistols, submachine guns, rifles, and hand grenades, which they hid in Jaime’s room until Alba could take them in her cello case to a safer place. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Last summer at the Massachusetts retreat, I brought my cello so I could keep up my practicing for an upcoming chamber-music concert. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was walking around, inspecting myself in the various mirrors, when June came down with her cello and began to play. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Through loudspeakers surrounding the pool, a Schubert sonata plays, violins and cellos. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z His voice had a low, sweet note in it like a cello, and his smile lit up every shadow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This dress is black, because black is the best thing for such occasions: a simple, sober black dress, like those of the women who play cellos in symphony orchestras. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Listening to him, I’m always reminded of why I started playing cello in the first place—that there is something so human and expressive about it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Having lunch with them is like going cello shopping with Yo-Yo Ma, or dropping in on Giorgio Armani one morning as he is deciding what to wear. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In this ten-note example from Corelli, all the keyboard player has in front of him or her is the bass line notes, borrowed from the cello player, and those extra numbers above it. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z June was out there waiting for us, sitting in an armless kitchen chair, playing her cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor did she continue with her music, because her cello seemed frivolous to her under the circumstances. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s attached to a framed photo of Mom posing with her cello that I haven’t ever seen before. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I want you to play me like a cello.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ainsley plays a Bach sonata, which, it turns out, is a hauntingly beautiful cello piece. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z I just have to find some way to make it as entertaining as a cello solo, an operatic aria, or a magic trick. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t know but it just seems like your cello is part of who you are. I can’t imagine you without that thing between your legs.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I play the cello, and I conduct an orchestra for teens called Rhythm NYC.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fog in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They went further in, down a red corridor, past rooms filled with empty chairs upon which rested violins and violas and cellos which played themselves, or seemed to, when fed a coin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Alba stopped practicing the cello, except to play it naked on the topaz bed, and she attended classes at the university with a hallucinated look in her eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Doc heard music in his head—violas and cellos, he thought. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s always asking me if one day we can play a duet, him on air guitar, me on air cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A set of drums, several guitars, a lute, a cello, and some bagpipes were set upon it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The girl with the cello case looked over at him, waited, and said, “Hey.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight, and it cuts out midstream. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s hard to describe Farsi chanting: the way Mom drew her voice out like the notes of a cello as she recited poems by Rumi or Hafez. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z After dinner and before lights-out every night, Simon and I had been bringing our cellos outside to hold impromptu concerts in the long twilight. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z June carried her cello, while the Daughters trailed the wagon single file, carrying burning candles. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they returned they were carrying my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the tuning fork I used to adjust my cello. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a fluke that they even had a cello; they’re very expensive and fragile. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On Wednesdays and Fridays, Bridge woke to the sound of the cello. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z If I got finished early in the honey house, I went to the kitchen and watched May and Rosaleen cook, but really I was there to listen to June play the cello. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He plays the instrument of language as Casals plays a cello. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, she was often bitingly sarcastic, especially to the second violins, especially the ones who—as one of the cellos put it drily—were “pigmentally blessed.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And when I gave a concert or recital, it was alone, on a stage, my cello, myself, and an audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was playing a cello solo from Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z To his left he spied a cello case. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She also played the cello in orchestra and at all the school talent shows. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “You can’t quit cello,” she said after a moment of stunned silence. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The royal orchestra marches in with stringed misens and violins and cellos, and the first waltz of the evening begins. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I picture my hand stroking Teddy’s hair, grasping a bow poised above my cello, interlaced with Adam’s. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Where many contraltos are endowed with the lightish, dusky equivalent of a viola, her voice — immense, deep, velvety and burnished — put a cello at her command. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z Bagatelles are almost uniformly for piano, but Dvorak’s endearing set is scored creatively: for two violins, cello and harmonium. Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The composer allows the flute and cello to arrive at havens — single notes in which their timbres seem to merge — but these oases don’t last long before carnage intrudes. Review: Music on the Edge Makes Its New York Debut 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Many people at intermission were talking about the looping in the second movement: haunting echoes of cello fragments that seem to travel through the hall. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z When Gandelsman started working on the Fifth Suite, he found himself “pulled into the world of the way that it sounds on the cello,” he said. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z As this protagonist cello line sighs, heaves and slackens, the taped parts add fragmented scratch tones, whispers and tremors, evoking terrain both alluring and treacherous. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The cello usually needs to stay at the back, to anchor the ensemble’s sound. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, Ms. Reid added, “What Pablo Casals did for the Bach suites, I feel like Abdul Wadud did for the new generation of cello in jazz.” Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z “Olicantus,” the introspective eighth movement, comprises a canon between bass clarinets and cellos. Music Review | New York Philharmonic: The Toe-Tapping Starts at the Podium 2010-02-19T23:15:00Z Each installment of the project, which he funds personally and through fund-raising, has a team behind it that handles the logistics — and, crucially, the cello — and finds local collaborators. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z A few minutes passed before the musicians — on viola, violin, trumpet, clarinet, cello, flute and vocals — joined in with a warbling chant, laying the foundation for many more undulatory layers of sound. Review: Creating Contrasts With yMusic, Marcos Balter and Dance 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z The lid of his piano was open, and he did not hold back, even in works in which the cello line was clearly the main focus. Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy 2010-03-08T22:19:00Z And the frenetic cello figures that followed lacked the tight ensemble necessary to suggest the first movement’s title: “Interrogation.” Review: At the Philharmonic, Contemporary Is King for a Week 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Antonov was unable to keep the perilous harmonics that open the first movement in tune with Keylin’s violin, set lower than the cello by the composer. Do Russian musicians play Russian music better? 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z Jiri joined a choir when he was 4 and soon started studying piano and cello. Jiri Belohlavek, Czech Conductor, Dies at 71 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z Behind her sit her band – keys, cello, guitar, drums, double bass – and beyond them the sky, a darkening blueish-pink. Glastonbury 2010: How Dizzee and the performers psyched up 2010-06-28T07:59:00Z “The accordion is not a chamber music instrument,” huffs the letter, written in the wake of a concert featuring a Bach sonata transcribed for cello and accordion. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z “Double Up, Plays Double Up Plus” features tuba, saxophones, cello, drums and three pianos, all playing parts that feel balanced and spacious and give each other enough room to land a plane. The Playlist: Lil Peep’s Sweet Gloom, and 8 More New Songs 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Bach initially wrote the sixth suite for a cello with five strings that featured an E string above the A string. Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Mulroney, 53, began playing cello before he entered the fourth grade in his hometown of Alexandria, Va. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The cellos set the feeling from the start, playing as one in an inexorably smooth flow of sound. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z And the more rhapsodic cello sonata, with its occasional hints that Ireland had perhaps heard Debussy's Cello Sonata by the time he composed it, has a strikingly explosive finale. Ireland: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2; Cello Sonata 2010-08-19T22:15:00Z The second question has two answers, which are sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory: Adam and the cello. ‘If I Stay’ Weighs Teenager’s Prospects After Horrific Crash 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Her arms murmured with soft flutters in time to the cello notes. Garth Fagan Dance delivers new spirit-lifting work 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The piece builds to a meter-fracturing dance, then ends quizzically, with subdued, piercing harmonies for the cello and a wistful fiddle tune. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z “It didn’t weigh very much — it was like lifting a papier-mâché cello,” the cellist Joshua Koestenbaum writes at the Met’s website of his experience playing the instrument in Vermillion in 2005. The National Music Museum, an Unlikely Eden in South Dakota 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z His primary focus, though, was still the cello, which brought him to the famed Sibelius Academy’s youth department. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Wearing a plain white maxi dress and cradling an acoustic guitar, she effortlessly glides through a medley of songs from the new album backed by double bass, cello and guitar. Laura Marling – review 2013-06-18T16:38:57Z He listened to the works of specific composers obsessively like immersive projects, and happily practiced his cello and sang in choruses, including in “Carmen” at the Finnish National Opera. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z But the ending is lovely: gossamer, calligraphic runs up and down the cello, barely audible over uneasy chords that resolve into the same high, quiet shimmer with which the work began. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:29:19Z “The cello and violin are intimately intertwined into a single voice, never playing alone as individuals for more than a few measures as the orchestra flickers around them.” Classical Music This Week: Previn News, Solos Spotlight and Zelenka 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Joseph Johnson, the principal cellist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and of the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, led off with a lovely performance of Bach’s towering Suite No. 1 in G for solo cello. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Festival Draws Musicians but Few Critics 2013-08-05T22:01:54Z The cargo includes eight cellos, six double basses, and six timpani. The Philharmonic Is Out of Its Hall This Year. It Doesn’t Pack Light. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z The performances were unremarkable except for in the concerto, with Mr. Bronfman’s seemingly effortless romps up and down the keyboard and Eric Bartlett’s fine cello solos. Review: The New York Philharmonic and a Quilt of Composers 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z She's got star quality in her voice, but her band's chamber pop arrangements featuring cello and saxophone didn't really coalesce into anything memorable until the closing, slow-build song. SXSW 2012: It's a wrap 2012-03-18T19:19:00Z And when the backing track sketches a new rhythmic pulse — one that in turn influences the part for Gookin’s cello — the joy of transmitting knowledge is perceptible. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It revealed a less angular side of Mr. Carter, who spoke of his admiration for Milton Babbitt, the formidable modernist who died in January and was represented here by his “More Melismata” for solo cello. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z To play a cello, you hug it, and if you wish, you can do more. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Bach’s six solo suites are the cornerstone of the cello repertoire, the most evocative and recognizable and profound of solo cello works. Review | Bach Unwound: Cellist offers another new look at solo suites 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z They each graduated from Juilliard, from which they also received a master’s degree in performance — she in piano, he in cello. He Professed His Love at 16, Then Waited 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z If the cellos are on the audience's right, they should sound like they are there. The Hollywood Bowl's magicians of sound 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z She wrote a cello solo with looping electronics for Gabriel Cabezas, a friend and former classmate at the Curtis Institute of Music, inspired by the image of a trail being repeatedly washed away. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z And as an encore, they added the Adagio from Brahms’s Opus 108 Violin Sonata, also arranged for cello. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z The piano and cello lines often seemed mainly foils for the percussion writing, in which layers of delicate tracery in the outer sections were offset by a brief but vigorous drum solo at the center. Music Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays at Merkin Hall 2010-04-20T22:27:00Z But the music soon settled into predictable patterns, with Ms. Barton’s lines soaring lyrically, while piano and cello traded the same arabesque motifs. Review: Jamie Barton Shows That She’s a Powerhouse of a Mezzo-Soprano 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Glossing through the contentious Beethoven Seven score — which included cut upper-trumpet parts and doublings, most conspicuously in the cello — Boulez concluded, as though obvious, “Mahler was having trouble with his orchestra.” 10 Treasures, Unearthed From the New York Philharmonic’s Archives 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z I usually have a place where I think the song should be, but then I’ll arrange some stuff around it — cello, synth, horns, additional piano — to give the directors more options. How Dev Hynes Went From Being in ‘We Are Who We Are’ to Scoring It 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z So we met at a summer music camp — young, talented kids playing the cello. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Tall cello cases took up the remaining space. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Elegant, long cello lines float above softly swirling pools of organ chords. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The program’s opener was “Pacific,” made to the third and fourth movements of another trio, this one for violin, cello and piano. Mark Morris and Lou Harrison, a Large-Spirited Partnership 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z My cello was as useless and forgotten as my appendix, yet it never occurred to me to get rid of it. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z This is music for male voices only, accompanied by an ensemble of low strings – five cellos and a double bass – resulting in complex polyphony, austere yet sensuous, over a narrow compass or range. Le Concert Spirituel/Niquet – review 2013-04-16T16:10:34Z “Obviously, Bach is not a complete fraud,” Isha Aran wrote on Jezebel, conceding that Bach’s résumé remains an impressive one even without the cello suites. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Her beloved cello, her mother’s high school graduation present, sat tucked away in the back of her clothing closet. It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z In solo passages, each produced a seductively buttery timbre, and throughout the performances Mr. Beyer-Karlshoj drew a sound so uncommonly fat that his instrument often sounded more like a double bass than a cello. Music Review: Henschel Quartet Navigates a Course At the Frick Collection 2010-04-12T22:37:00Z There’s a great moment in season one where Doug and Carrie are arguing in the middle of a cello performance, and no lines are spoken and the scene is performed in complete silence. Kevin Can Wait: is Kevin James an acting genius or a one-trick pony? 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z The cello swerved in and out of mellifluous melody; each time its lines slid into heedless-sounding glissandos, you wondered if the center would hold. Review: Iranian Female Composers Speak Indirectly to the Moment 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z He persuaded the 13-year-old Mingus to switch from cello to bass, telling him that he needed a bassist for his own amateur combo. Buddy Collette obituary 2010-10-06T17:06:00Z Here he opened up large arcs with one raised arm; there he lingered over a point of connection between cello and dance. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z If you follow his compositional development through the five sonatas, the cello emerged as an equal partner to the piano. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But these days I think I’m going deeper into it – bringing in the cellos and everything. Bettye LaVette: “I’m kind of melancholy all the time, anyway – I think I live my life in B-flat minor” 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It was while at Julliard, he says, that he realized that his skill with the cello would be based on “how smart” he practiced as opposed to how many hours he put in. He conducted at 3 and now he’s playing with Seattle Symphony: Cellist Nathan Chan 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Also on Monday, for one of the Miller Theater’s informal Pop-Up concerts, the cellist Michael Nicolas will explore works that pair cello with electronics and computer. Taka Kigawa, Ligeti in Mind, Returns to Le Poisson Rouge 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Now it is the turn of the young Moldavian violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, featured in three of the four works for violin and/or cello for string orchestra on this spellbinding new disc. Tigran Mansurian's 'Quasi Parlando' is spellbinding 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Self-aggrandizing and self-loathing, grandiose and goofy, leaping from stomping drums to cellos to sampled soul to dance-club electronics, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is a wildly multifarious inventory of Mr. West’s fixations. The Year in Culture: 2010 Anthems: From a Kiss-Off to Jolts of Hope 2010-12-16T19:28:05Z “When I was taking cello lessons, I used to break into the school assembly hall and try to play piano by ear,” says Lewis. Paul Lewis to play Beethoven with SSO April 17-19 2014-04-10T20:52:32Z Finally, a searching cello line breaks loose, sounding like intense yet wayward thoughts unfolding in endless phrases. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Deep in Verdi’s opera “Don Carlo,” an impassioned solo cello line embroiders a bass aria with a vein of feeling. A Not-Quite-Star Maestro Has a Starry Season at the Met 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “It’s helped me develop my sound as a cellist, and work on a repertoire for cello,” she said. From a Burger King to a Concert Hall, With Help From Frank Gehry 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z The excellent video features a Japanese youth orchestra playing violins and Sega Game Gears, and some precarious-looking stunts involving playing cello on top of a moving car. New music: Clean Bandit ? Telephone Banking 2011-08-26T11:40:00Z Throughout the 49-minute set, Russell focuses on songs for his voice and cello. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Beyond unusual selections, the group aims to display the dynamism of the cello, an instrument Jenkins feels often gets tagged as an accompaniment. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z As a child, she moved from Brazil to France and back again; at thirteen she moved to Buenos Aires to study cello, without her parents. Listen to Dom La Nena 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Toward the final third of a performance that had mixed ambient sound, classical cello, operatic vocals, pop music and more, Kelsey Lu emerged in a pink, floral costume and offered a proclamation: “Spring has sprung.” Performing Arts Make a Cautious Return in New York 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Place a piano among real sustaining or breathing instruments – a cello, a clarinet – and the illusion shatters, forcing us to hear the piano as it is: a tuned percussion instrument. Composing for the piano in black and white 2010-06-03T22:05:00Z In the 1986 book “The Art of Quartet Playing: The Guarneri String Quartet in Conversation With David Blum,” Mr. Soyer described the position of a cello in a string quartet as both base and bass. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z The rather unusual misty tone quality that Carroll and his Guadagnini cello produce made quite an impact. Carroll/Williams - review 2011-07-14T13:31:19Z “Mosaique” featured the cellist Jonathan Gotlibovitch, who exhaled, clicked and hissed as he plucked the cello and rubbed and tapped its body. Music Review: Meitar Ensemble at Roulette 2013-04-19T21:24:58Z The official tally of cellos on the Disney stage was 109, gathered for the premiere of Anna Clyne’s “Threads & Traces,” a Los Angeles Philharmonic commission for the occasion. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Gyda Valtysdottir’s cello takes on the guise of a modern-day Orpheus and the spectral sounds of the underworld as she layers her performance on top of two prerecorded tracks. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z Now, at the start of the action, her mother has died, and Charlotte heads to Shanghai to join Elizabeth as a juror in a cello competition. “Ma” and “The Perfection,” Reviewed: Two Horror Movies Crassly Exploit #MeToo 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Grisey's three-part score for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and cello may be vastly more complex than "Become Ocean," but both spring from a briny sea of arpeggios. Weekend concerts across L.A. provide solace in a world gone wrong amid Paris attacks 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Another example of Mr. Lerdahl’s spiral methods of composition, it was inspired by Gothic cathedrals, and the haunting opening cello solo, played against bell-like echoes from the percussion, does indeed evoke an expansive cathedral setting. Music Review: Spiral Form and Other Compositional Modes of Fred Lerdahl 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z When playing in a swing rhythm, Ms. Reid creates a flow with her cello that’s tensile and quick — like so much free jazz of the 1970s and ’80s — but also earthy and more sturdily organized. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z In the front room, a cello sits in a black case. Pundit Mona Charen blew up CPAC. Even she was stunned by the vitriol that ensued. 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The instrument sounds like a cello on steroids — low and resonant. The Earth Harp turns an L.A. skyscraper into world's longest stringed instrument 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z When the time came to attend the Sibelius Academy proper, Mäkelä continued with cello — though he never graduated — and played in the Helsinki Philharmonic, under conductors including Mälkki. At 26, the Conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s Star Keeps Rising and Rising 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z “And that’s the tradition that’s been instilled in me by Rostropovich. He would be proud that three members of the cello section, whom he chose to join the orchestra, are playing this concerto.” Lives of the cellists 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z “I would say now we’re back to the point where the cello case would be filled to the brim,” he said. Gauging Our Return to Office and the Subways, One Tip at a Time 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z Leppin sat at the center of it all, physically and sonically, maintaining an imposing posture over her cello, as if literally trying to wrestle new sounds out of it. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z By purely acoustic means, the sounds that Ms. Lee sawed and rubbed from her cello evoked the clouds of distortion that Jimi Hendrix got from an electric guitar. Dance Review: Michelle Boulé and Okkyung Lee Perform at Mount Tremper Arts 2013-07-07T21:51:14Z Ezhokina's supple sway on the keyboards dovetailed beautifully with Singer's protean precision on the cello. In Leavenworth, the hills come alive with the sounds of chamber music 2011-07-15T20:42:37Z "I grew up listening to classical music and playing cello, so that's a deep influence." Leading the field 2010-05-21T23:02:00Z “You could hear us practice piano, violin, guitar, cello, clarinet, accordion, and later, recorders.” Maria von Trapp, ‘Sound of Music’ Daughter, Dies at 99 2014-02-24T04:39:12Z It begins with spare melancholy before building to a final section that ties flowing Minimalist-style arpeggios with rhapsodic cello effusions: cool and warm, united. Review: For Steven Isserlis and Stephen Hough, a New York Debut 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z “If you know the cello concerto or the ‘Enigma’ Variations, it’s a language that you’ll recognize immediately. Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Like the inaugural festival four years ago, this second version included a boot-camp-like concentration of master classes, concerts and all-around cello camaraderie. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Their rhythmic, Sisyphean actions are accompanied by blues singing and cello. Review | A searing, all-star art show explores Black grief from the civil rights era to now 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z For the rest, imagine lush chordal textures, note-bending Hasidic tunes and a touch of hoedown bowing, all underpinned by a lute, harpsichord and cello continuo section. Critic?s Notebook: A Festival Brings the Obscure to the Fore, With a Global Touch 2011-06-20T21:59:21Z “That I had to learn the cello to become a musician, and that it was only through decades of musical exploration that I came to understand my responsibility as a human being.” Classical Music Podcasts Begin to Flourish, at Last 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z From all reports the piece covers a wide sonic terrain from solo cello to subdued choral singing to blazing bursts of orchestral music and much propulsive drumming. The Week Ahead: Sept. 11 ? Sept. 17 2011-09-09T14:39:13Z When the stirring central tune of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 12 first emerges, a few minutes into the piece, it’s very soft in the cellos and basses. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Bohuslav Martinů’s first cello sonata, also in D minor, felt like a twin for the Shostakovich piece, driven to a fast and furious ending in the parallel major. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z This is an immersion into the essence of cello. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z “But then an official spots their tuba or their cello or their paintbrushes and says, ‘You’re working, get back on the plane.’ ” Britain?s Conflicting Entry Rules Stymie Visiting Artists 2011-10-19T21:55:14Z There was a close connection between music and text — the latter projected onto a screen — even in the instrumental passages, where Gabriel Cabezas’s cello underwent a number of sonic transformations. Music Review: Dolce Suono Ensemble and Lucy Shelton at Roulette 2013-12-10T18:21:41Z The piece is to include ad lib sections for solo clarinet, violin, cello and trumpet; musicians improvising these sections were selected on the basis of worldwide video auditions. Harris Theater throws visionary namesake a gala birthday bash 2011-03-08T15:37:00Z On the bill for the performance, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, are “Therefore, I Was,” for piano, cello and percussion, and the full version of a new solo percussion piece, “Shiver Lung 2.” 10 Things to Do Now in NYC 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Corrosive brasses and heated strings enlivened the Respighi’s first movement, and gray-toned woodwinds, transparent violins, and luxuriant cellos and basses colored the second. Review: When the Philharmonic Applauds the Soloist 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z She was accompanied by four instrumentalists playing cello, percussion, various flutes and clarinets, all members of the International Contemporary Ensemble, known as ICE. Music Review: ‘The whisper opera’ Speaks at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-11T21:53:51Z There is though, one obvious paragon of the solo cello repertoire that is conspicuous by its absence from Weilerstein's forthcoming collection - the cello suites written by that titanic figure of classical music, J S Bach. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It’s just that few, if any, musicians think their ivory-tipped cello bows are contributing to the poaching crisis. Ivory, at the tip of a complex issue for traveling orchestra members 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z And with the lid fully raised, he never once swamped the cello, a perpetual problem in these works. Three singular artists present an engaging program at the Kennedy Center 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The conceit was spectacularly imaginative: the sheets had enough form to become both dynamic sculptures and, in their murmured crinkling, significant percussive accompaniment for occasional wails from Sunny Yang’s cello. Review: Kronos Quartet Offers a Creative Snapshot of a Global Pandemic 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The band Cults expanded the distorted cello of Mr. Russell’s “Being It” into a rock-guitar roar; “You Can Make Me Feel Bad” turned from a taunt into a cozy group-sing. Review: ‘Red Hot + Arthur Russell’ Pays Funky, Introspective Tribute to a Composer and Musician 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z In that regard, the slow movement was the highlight of an otherwise rather busy second cello sonata by Fauré. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z How, then, did Jarvis become convinced that she wrote the cello suites? The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Finally, just the cello, with which it all started, is left. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z When I asked if I could play a passage of his cello concerto, he said: "Of course, but I don't hear so well." Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z It wasn't that she played the cello well so much as that she could play it at all in these circumstances that seemed to matter. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z In practice, this provided a buzzing electronic sheen to the three quartets with the loudspeakers seeming like aliens trying to mimic the language that violins, violas and cellos make. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Music is the starting point for Morris' dances, and German composer Paul Hindemith's 1925 cello concerto, Kammermusik No. 3, is no exception. PNB's 'All Premiere': 4 new works, including 1 by Mark Morris 2012-10-24T20:52:05Z The cellos spoke with gorgeous warmth, and the brass acquitted themselves proudly. A bright program in which Dvorak wasn’t the feature 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z He put the cello down after college, where he majored in film with an eye toward becoming a cinematographer. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The overture opens with a soft section for cello solo, though, during which the melancholy sound of David Hardy’s instrument set an unexpected and delicious tone for an outdoor concert. National Symphony Orchestra shines in quiet moments at Wolf Trap Last month, I recorded his cello concerto, and I was speaking to him only last Saturday. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z She places the cellos, basses and most of the bass brass instruments on her the right and they come across as weapons. An L.A. Phil reminder that but a mile, and fate, separate Disney Hall from skid row 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z DeMaine said that one of his weaknesses is collecting expensive cellos. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z At the center is the New York premiere of the modernist German master Wolfgang Rihm’s Duo Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra, a work inspired by Brahms’s Double Concerto and scored for the same instruments. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z It is to Siegfried’s Funeral Music that “Funeral Song” audibly refers, with those guttural utterances of the cellos and basses, first creeping up by chromatic steps and then shuffling back down. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He was also widely known through his more than 150 recordings, including one of Bach’s six suites for solo cello for which he won a Grammy Award in 1998. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z The piano leads brightly, the violin seems a little recessive, and the cello supports well: a sequence of superb music which leaves one wanting more of the series. Haydn: Piano Trios Vol 1, Nos 24, 25, 26, 31 ? review 2011-08-20T23:05:45Z When I was a kid and first started playing the cello, she was always a huge influence. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z Born on April 11, 1938, in a small town near Cologne, he studied the cello as a child but planned to become a businessman or industrialist. Kurt Moll, German Basso Profundo, Dies at 78 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Born into a working-class family in Stoke – he kept traces of the accent all his life – he had a good practical musical education, studying violin and cello, and playing the organ in local churches. The Gothic Symphony: 'It's a Himalayan peak' 2011-07-13T20:30:01Z We still haven’t learned how to do rap on the cello. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And only they are allowed to dance one of their numbers to taped music — a big all-strings affair — though with an overlay of Mr. Bravo’s live cello. Dance Review: ‘Forever Tango’ Incudes ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Alumni 2013-07-15T02:00:01Z The cello pieces demonstrated their own impressive if very different range. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Pinch Hitters At Tanglewood LENOX, Mass. THE double basses and cellos of the thumped their way downward at a rehearsal of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection.” Tanglewood Batons: Thomas, Dohnanyi and Mena 2010-07-08T22:06:00Z As a cello played by Aoife Burke provides mournful underscoring, a spectator gets rewarding insight into the breakdown of a tragic coupling. Perspective | In London, the shows go on — but apathy is unmasked 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Landsman described his sound as rich, creamy and colorful; it’s also tenderly human, with the singing quality of a cello. A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Now, as I experience the final dyad of G and C in the cellos, I hear an even broader sense of emotional distance traveled over the course of the work. Richness in Stasis: La Monte Young Finally Releases ‘Trio’ 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z There is a special cloud in cello heaven for Beethoven. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z “What a privilege to be able to play the cello at such a wonderful event.” Cellist from royal wedding to appear with Seattle Symphony this fall 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The cello version is the keeper; brawny arpeggios and rhythmic chords delivered by a pair of cellists including none other than Yo-Yo Ma. Tame Impala’s Disco-Prog Shrug, and 9 More New Songs 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z By my count, more than 200 instrumentalists and singers were jammed onto the Carnegie stage, plus Nagano and the soloist Jan Vogler on cello, for the nearly hourlong work. Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The track is dominated by a never-ending bass riff and non-stop hi-hat beat, and on top of this, arranger Paul Riser laid violins, cellos, harp and reverberating trumpet. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z “It’s not that old for a cello,” she said. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z As expressions of Bach’s virtuosity, solo pieces for cello, violin and harpsichord dotted the evening. Review | The Knights weave old and new in concert of surprises at Dumbarton Oaks 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z I just hoped he wouldn't be put off that my German mum had made me learn the cello. I Think I Love You by Allison Pearson 2010-06-28T21:00:00Z “Kraft” begins with spasms of thick chords that slowly disintegrate, until only scraggly lines for cello and clarinet are audible. Music Review: Clash! Bang! Clink! Went the Orchestra 2010-10-08T17:47:00Z The mood is dirge-like, yet gains a strange sensuality from alluring instrumental combinations: cello with flute, horn with plucks from the strings. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic 2014-03-21T22:19:16Z Her latest composition, “Entanglement,” features a cellist and a percussionist whose sole instruments are the cello, the floor and the two musicians’s bodies. Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z He plays the entire Beethoven cycle — including the Triple Concerto for piano, violin and cello — over the next three weeks. Bronfman Braces for the Five Piano Concertos 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z We'll have a guy called Philip Sheppard, who plays the electric cello, and did a record called The Diver in the Crypt. Jarvis Cocker on radio: this isn't hardcore 2012-09-26T19:00:05Z A duet performed by Fletcher and Dickinson, "Rock, Paper, Scissors," folds the hand action of the children's game into a complicated acro-balancing routine, done to a solo cello accompaniment. Seattle's Coriolis, Offshore Project join forces for weekend of dance 2012-05-09T22:18:10Z However much the cello was once more the center of things, what was most interesting was how pliable the instrument proved. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z He is the principal cellist in the school orchestra, but he couldn’t afford to buy or even rent a cello. ‘I’ve been crying all day ... happy tears’: Young cellist with tormented past is in disbelief at over $141,000 in donations 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Coming to the Baroque cello after a morning of Philharmonic rehearsals with his modern setup Guadagnini always took a while to adjust. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z His Old World seating plan – violins divided across the podium, cellos front and center, double basses curiously separated right and left – yielded a bright, clean, well-balanced sound. Under Gatti, French National Orchestra focuses on style, color 2011-04-14T17:25:00Z Because of its range, in cello you can do everything. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The gut strings of the period instruments contributed a warmer sound than their modern counterparts, particularly notable during the passages of double bass and cello underpinnings. Music Review: Dusting Off the Real Dragonetti Concerto 2010-10-05T21:15:00Z After all this, the murky, evil-sounding groove of Organic — a band with three electric guitarists, along with electric and acoustic bass, cello, piano and drums — felt almost like a comfort. Music Review: Wadada Leo Smith at Roulette in Brooklyn - Review 2011-12-18T22:47:39Z Here the brass was not brash but a golden complement to rich strings, especially cellos and basses. Bruckner as a holiday treat? The L.A. Phil thinks so 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z There's silky Copper River salmon, accompanied by Randy's handcrafted pickled vegetables, Matt's charcuterie, and Nancy's made-from-scratch cello cocktails. Dining with The Four Coursemen 2011-09-26T17:20:11.897Z Mr. Edberg is a cello professor at DePauw University, where, in addition to standard repertoire, he teaches improvisation; his website includes several clips of his work. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z On his first day there, as Jay Donn put it, “I was trapped in a room with three girls and a cello.” Street Dancers Tackle a Ballet Project and the Armory Stage 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z In the opening chords, the cellos brushed their bows — held at each end — vertically along the strings; on the harp, gentle movements of the back of the hand created milky glissandos. Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z The musicians played an unusual combination of instruments: piano, cello, violin and clarinet. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Rooting the sound in the cellos and basses and demanding precision with his stylish, meticulous movements, Mr. Honeck made the Fourth something shadowy and equivocal. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The cellos were unctuous in the Scherzo, part of a kaleidoscope of sickness and sourness that never became grotesque; the violas seemed to feed off the heat of the brasses. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Lutoslawski specified pitch in his cello concerto but exerted less control over rhythm and coordination. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z With cello and guitar at the forefront, the sound skewed rustic-cosmopolitan, lean and springy, often sweetened with a touch of twang. Music Review: Taking the Cello a Ways Down a Country Road 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z Thursday brings the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to Carnegie with a program that includes Wolfgang Rihm’s new Duo Concerto for violin and cello. Classical Music This Week: Previn News, Solos Spotlight and Zelenka 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The cello, the one instrument of the three for which Beethoven did not write a concerto, leads all three movements, and Gautier Capucon's lyrical suavity was stellar. Everything goes right for Gustavo Dudamel in Beethoven program 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z As we both drink the liquid, resonant with hints of chocolate and black cherry, a fecundity of cello strings mixed with the silvery falsetto of birdsong washes over us. Heard it through the grapevine: can music really change the taste of wine? 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Each composer who used prerecorded cello and electronic sound design, sometimes with on-the-spot manipulations, did so to very different aesthetic ends. Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z “This was so great, how the brakes were ‘tuned’ into the cello clusters of David Darling,” he said. Jean-Luc Godard Is, Quietly, a Probing Musical Mind 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Few pleasures could equal the spectacle of this masterly musician playing all six of Bach’s suites for solo cello in a space where the composer worked, St. Nicholas Church in Leipzig, Germany. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z The cello evolved from the "bass violin", a generic name for a family of cello-like instruments appearing from the 1530s onwards – hulking, oversized violins mostly designed to be played while seated. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z There are better places to hear a cello than outdoors, and better places to appreciate an orchestral balance; and therefore those things seemed here not quite to be what the piece was about. John Luther Adams’s ‘Sila’: New work occupies Lincoln Center plaza In “Nightfalls,” the first of its four movements, high, keening tendrils on the violins stretched over dusky, yawning chords from the viola and cello. Music Review: From Twilight?s Mysteries Right Up to the 25th Hour 2011-03-13T21:47:34Z I think the single word "Sempre" in the cello sonata's finale may just be an editor's mistake, or perhaps Debussy's own mistake. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z The rhythmically insistent cello line hovers for long stretches over a single note; midway through the piece, it seems to be grunting fearsomely while the other instruments do the heavy lifting. Music Review: Sounds of a New World, a Few Years On 2011-03-29T21:50:16Z The festival’s closing gala turned into a three-hour-plus traversal of Beethoven’s music for cello and piano, the five sonatas and three sets of variations. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Wen, echoing the sound of petals falling, played around with the modified murmur of two double basses, cello and flute. Want to hear the real La La Land? Lend an ear to the L.A. composers of the Hear Now festival 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z The horns made a hazy halo of sound around the buttery flute playing of Karl-Heinz Schütz, while the cello added body to the flute lines. Daniel Barenboim’s Festtage Performance Makes Case for Inheriting Berlin Philharmonic 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Despite his classical training in the cello, everything stems from singing for Selaocoe. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Musical director and keyboardist Jake Null anchors a small, flexible orchestra comprising guitar, bass and drums driving the rowdy first half of the show, plus violin and cello prying open your heart in act two. Musical ‘Dogfight’ has bite, while ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ lacks affection 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Robert Sirota’s “Assimilations,” a quartet for piano, violin, cello and clarinet that also received its world premiere here, was the most personal work in the lineup. | Washington Square Ensemble: Washington Square Ensemble Make Waves at Merkin Hall 2010-04-08T22:43:00Z The rustle of the cellos in the first “Nocturne” registered less as tone than as an atmospheric disturbance. Review: David Robertson Leads the St. Louis Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Elgar is a clever colorist who knows how to pair his mezzo-soprano with the warm-toned accompaniment of cellos and violas, instruments that mimic and support the voice particularly well. ‘Gerontius,’ where have you been? Seattle Symphony brings seldom-heard piece to vibrant life 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The passing of a line among different instruments — cello, flute, clarinet, oboe — was an understated layering of liquidities of different densities. In Cleveland, Schubert Outsings Even the Mighty ‘Otello’ 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Listen for the way that the glitched-up instrumental “break glass” foreshadows its eventual percussive slap with an early, grainy low note for the cello. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Volumes of violins, violas, cellos and basses bent notes as a stoic speeding motorcyclist cut across the vast Scottish countryside. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Its style changes constantly: the vocal writing is often angular and tense, occasionally lyrical and sometimes spoken, and the instrumental scoring — for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet and harp — mirrors, punctuates and comments on it. Music Review: Signal, a New-Music Orchestra, Plays at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-05-28T21:45:00Z Then she played cello with all of them going. Listen to Dom La Nena 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Most of her early solo work centered on her cello, extended by all manner of electronic looping and multitracking. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z The admin officer plays the cello, the learning mentor plays the double bass. Schoolchildren star at BBC Proms 2013-09-02T15:14:53Z The monotonous music — piano, then techno, then violin and cello — doesn’t help. ‘Wild Grass,’ by Beijing Dance Theater, at Next Wave 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z While the violin solos are most difficult in their fugues and implied counterpoint, he said, the cello works more or less keep multiple voices within the same line. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z That urge doesn’t really leave throughout the rest of the six cello suites, lithely rendered here on solo violin by Johnny Gandelsman. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z But a cello can be beautiful melodically, which makes it perfect for film music and classical music. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Born in London, she picked up the cello at 8 and has always been naturally driven — she speaks five languages, and for early auditions developed her Russian accent through YouTube videos. She Knew the Cello. The Acting She Learned With Cate Blanchett. 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z For the stroker, learning how to connect fully has all the pleasure of learning how to play a cello – and some. Orgasm addicts, sex doesn’t have to be red hot 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z As the Shirley discography continues, most of the music is fancy settings of standards, usually in a trio with bass and cello. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z During five stretches of the work, the violin engages in sort of sub-talks with a series of solo instruments: flute, piccolo, oboe, cello and bassoon. Boston Symphony Shows Verve Even Without Levine 2011-03-16T06:11:47Z We heard a virtuoso performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations II by pianist Bruce Murray, followed by innovative interpretations of pieces written for cello, played on acoustic guitar and a specially made cello banjo. In the Shenandoah Valley, Blackburn Inn gives new life to a site with a dark past 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The cello soloist, Raphael Wallfisch, certainly played it as though he really believed in it, though. Prom16: BBCNOW/Van Steen – review 2013-07-25T13:30:00Z Sarah Stone, who plays cello and viola da gamba, has stuck to her “Bach Everyday” performances from her apartment in New York City. Entertainers promised to see us through the quarantine. Even they are running out of steam. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most famous recent case was of Yo-Yo Ma leaving a Stradivarius cello in a New York City taxi in 1999; it was quickly recovered. Million-Dollar Stradivarius Violin Stolen, Recovered—Then Found to Be Fake 2013-03-27T15:44:33Z But his shaping of the cello and viola melodies in the Andante was full of yearning, and in the symphony’s softest moments his intensity kept the interest taut. Eschenbach takes the NSO back to one of his favorites, Bruckner 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It worked for "Love," his epic Spectrum piece set to Britten's cello suites earlier this year. Byrd and Dance Theatre of Harlem: a thrilling 'Contested Space' 2012-11-17T17:06:18Z On display is the earliest known Stradivari, the Serdet from 1666, as well as a Stradivari guitar, mandolin, viola and cello. Behold the Messiah: 21 of the finest Stradivarius violins go on show 2013-06-12T17:43:59Z In this account, it was a mercurial fantasy, rich with fluttering cello bursts, alternately stentorian and whispered sung passages, skittish piano flights, and sliding riffs for electric guitar. From Harlem to Italy, Sounds of Gay Subversion 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Right now, its star is Mr. Summer, the cellist of the Turtle Island Quartet, whose inventive arrangements incorporated fragments from Bach cello suites. Tierney Sutton Reimagines Joni Mitchell Songs 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z I went to their house, and there was a cello there. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z That amusingly lugubrious cello anchors the high anguish of “Later” in “Now/Later/Soon” from “A Little Night Music.” Instrumental to Signature’s success, orchestra shines in Sondheim revue 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The duo moved to Denver, plugged into the open-mike scene to work on their music in an informal, live setting, and then posted an ad for a cello player. Lumineers specialize in audience participation 2012-04-12T16:09:00Z Far the best thing in it, I thought, was its last movement, a wordless melody matching Morgan Smith’s almost unearthly vocal delicacy with Gray’s magically disembodied cello sound. Heggie and Scheer at their best for Music of Remembrance | Classical review 2013-05-15T17:54:19Z “The clarity in the baton, in his expression and his gestures,” he said by phone two weeks ago, speaking of performing a new concerto for cello and choir written by Luna Pearl Woolf, Haimovitz’s wife. A polymath in D.C.: The long ascendancy of conductor-composer Julian Wachner While co-star Philip Seymour Hoffman learned the violin for A Late Quartet, Walken focused only on simulating playing the cello. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z Mournful loops of electrified cello overlaid throbbing synthesizer, the music constantly spinning apart and reassembling into a whole. 15 Musicians Spent the Night in an Active Volcano. Listen to What Happened. 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The program includes the New York premiere of Mr. Hyla’s “Mother Popcorn Revisited” for piano trio, as well as his “Polish Folk Songs” for clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, piano and percussion. Classical & Opera Listings for May 15-21 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But the cello did not inspire him, so his father gave him a trombone. Grachan Moncur III, Trombonist Whose Star Shone Briefly, Dies at 85 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z The cello doesn’t quite lead the orchestra, but its music keeps being echoed within the ensemble; the soloist is something like a diamond in a ring, supported by and glinting onto its setting. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Q. Speaking of Casals, does the legacy of having his cello ever weigh down on you? Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, “The Light Within” unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “From the get-go, I was thinking about two flutes, two violins, two cellos, two keyboards and two drums, which turned into three drums,” Mr. Mazurek said of the new album. Rob Mazurek’s Intergalactic Jazz Aims for a New Dimension 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z While Green Day’s version has a hard-edged, metallic sound, Mr. Kitt created a piano and cello arrangement that packs a more direct emotional wallop. How Green Day?s ?American Idiot? Made Broadway 2010-04-01T22:09:00Z Then I decide this cello here, or those drums stopping there.” Perspective | As ‘Hamilton’ becomes a movie, suddenly we’re all in the room where it happens 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Steven Sharp Nelson, who plays cello for the Piano Guys, disagreed with Mr. Allen’s critique. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Stagehands scurried around packing up cellos, basses, timpani, pianos and other equipment. The Philharmonic Is Out of Its Hall This Year. It Doesn’t Pack Light. 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z "Golden Void" has a grandeur that could have sustained a 15-minute live edition, even further deepened by Dibs's electric cello. Hawkwind plus Easter equals ... Hawkeaster! 2013-04-02T15:20:32Z The program concluded with the original version, featuring Joshua Rubin playing bass clarinet, the instrument’s low sonorities and outbursts creating a canvas even more otherworldly than the cello version. Review: Mario Diaz de León Plays Selections From ‘The Soul Is the Arena’ 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z And in that, Bray’s cello section proved a Brahmsian’s dream, deep amber in tone and never mushy. In Costa Mesa, the New York Philharmonic runs through the routine 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In the slow movement, weird tuning in the cellos and basses creates new sound worlds. Salonen and Philharmonic see America anew 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z And the Prelude from Bach’s first solo cello suite served as dessert. Review | Hungarian cellist is upstaged by a centuries-old Strad 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z If someone asked you what kind of concert you went to at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, you’d probably call it a cello recital. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z The former secondary-school supply teacher is celebrating the release of her debut album, Sing to the Moon, with a six-piece band that includes her sister, Dionne, on violin and brother, James, on cello. Laura Mvula – review 2013-03-05T18:18:30Z For them, the act of drawing a bow across the open string of a cello, for example, is anathema, just as the octave doubling of a melodic line was for Schoenberg and the twelve-tone school. Classical Notes: Yan Maresz’s “Tutti” 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z He began in late January by exploring the works for cello and piano by Chopin and Schumann with his old friend Yo-Yo Ma. Music Review | Emanuel Ax and Dawn Upshaw: Saluting Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-18T21:46:00Z In Ms. Mazzoli’s “Salt,” Ms. Beiser was joined by Ms. Davis, a singer whose range and color palette vie with that of a cello. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z And on Saturday there, for the reincarnation of his unruly “Trumpet” and the intense “Holy Presence of Joan D’Arc,” for 10 cellos. A Long-Lost Composer Is Raised From the Dead 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z In the final movement the cello, now frustrated, demands attention. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But think of the string quartets, the piano sonatas, the violin sonatas, the cello sonatas, the piano concertos. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z The score for "Journey," which casts players as a mysterious scarf-draped figure who wanders a desert landscape, is an exotic mix of mystical and introspective ditties led by powerful cello solos. Video game composer taking 'Journey' to Grammys 2013-02-07T16:46:07Z He conducted the U.S. premiere of a gorgeous new work for cello and orchestra commissioned by the orchestra as well as the West Coast premiere of his big, startling orchestral work “Totentanz.” Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z There’s a unique rawness to watching the sonatas and partitas played live, more so even than the cello suites. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z At times, all the individually sounded notes seem to melt into a single, blissful whole; then suddenly the fretful or anxious plucking of a violin or cello asserts itself. ‘Allegro,’ a Rarely Staged Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z A moody, lyrical and sometimes haunting middle section preceded the Allegro finale, a rambunctious conclusion with vigorous exchanges between viola and cello. Music Review: Clarinets and Orion String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2012-04-01T20:47:40Z A pastoral mood returns in the Adagio, finding Gabetta’s cello circling and climbing. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z According to legend Chabrier burst into tears at the sound of the first note, an A from the cellos, and remained barely coherent for the rest of the evening. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z Adams' "Canticles of the Sky" appears to be a new string quartet arrangement of an earlier piece for 45 cellos. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Composed around 1720, just before Bach moved to Leipzig, the cello suites, now musical and emotional touchstones, were little known until the early 1900s. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Barnes’s women are so intentionally eccentric that you wonder why she returns to bits of Bach cello music, which seems to show up the antics onstage as minor league and daffy. Dance Review: At the Joyce, Kate Weare and Monica Bill Barnes 2010-08-12T22:50:00Z It's music whose sheer, scintillating physicality creates its own territory in every piece, whether it's for solo cello or huge orchestra. A guide to Iannis Xenakis's music 2013-04-23T16:57:59Z Although purely acoustic, “Gray Neon Life” radically alters the cello’s sound by using a bow whose hair is twisted around the stick — a technique devised by the Australian composer Liza Lim. From Lady Gaga to an ice cello, Seth Parker Woods redefines what it means to play cello 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z The cello part, played brilliantly by Michael Nicolas, emerges in fits and starts, with high-pitched wails sometimes mingling with electronic buzzing. Bargemusic’s Here and Now Series Offers Winter Festival 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z There was a Middle Eastern flavor to the opening of Ms. Beglarian’s “Far-Off Country,” with a keening motif in the cello that was repeated and subtly altered in increasing layers of sound. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z Last year’s score to the French television series Les Revenants opted for a more delicate palette, letting cello, bells, and piano play among the earthy guitars and space alien synths. New Album, Rave Tapes, Is Classic Mogwai 2014-01-24T16:33:36Z A passage in which Ms. Monastyrska’s lines were perfectly shadowed by the cellos, even as they were elastically shaped, spoke volumes about the trust and communication between Mr. Luisi and his singers. Music Review: ‘Aida’ at Metropolitan Opera 2012-11-25T23:03:14Z The group — clarinet, trombone, cello and piano — are members of the orchestral collective wild Up. wasteLAnd and rest of new music scene in L.A. is thriving with a lowercase T 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z The first song, “Individual Origami,” opens with a flamboyant cello solo, played here with intense heat by Ms. Williams. Review: Jamie Barton Shows That She’s a Powerhouse of a Mezzo-Soprano 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z As it builds, driven by a sawing, reverberant cello, the dancers are rotated in fast succession and in varying combinations, shimmying and looping their way through Tharp's high-velocity enchaînements with precisely engineered nonchalance. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z The elusive second movement was riveting, as Mr. Runge played the eerie pizzicato cello line with deceptive nonchalance and spectral colorings. Music Review | Artemis Quartet: Beethoven That Is Robust, if a Little Strange 2010-03-02T22:19:00Z He directed early performances from the cello and evolved into a standup conductor. An Austrian Maestro’s Career, Seen Through His Recordings 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z When the violins begin to play in “Once” — and the accordion and the mandolin and the guitars and the cello — the instruments swell into a collection of distinctive voices melded into a single, universal feeling. Theater Review: ?Once,? With Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, at Jacobs Theater 2012-03-19T02:00:10Z Though a persuasive champion of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites, he turned them over to six other players last Sunday. Music Review: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2012-03-17T00:22:16Z We also see the doctor, seated in a hospital courtyard, playing the cello, exquisitely, encircled by tiny children and their parents. | 'Beatocello’s Umbrella ': ‘Beatocello’s Umbrella,’ Charity in Cambodia 2013-12-12T23:51:55Z Even the fast-moving second section has the singing quality that was Mr. Weisgall’s trademark, and the Arioso alternates keening cantorial cello lines with delicate mystery and slow slides into glassy harmonics. Music Review: Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance 2012-06-15T22:14:58Z The real Werner von Braun shows up, too, playing Nazi generals “as skillfully as he played his cello,” a knack the rocketry pioneer nimbly redeploys at the end of the novel. Review | Love suspense? Here are 5 new thrillers that will have you on the edge of your seat. 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “Primavera Amarilla,” a lively setting of a text by the poet Juan Ramón Jiménez for soprano, piano, cello, clarinet and violin, was brightly sung by Mary Mackenzie. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z The day’s work is done; with violin, cello and clarinet in hand, music is being made. Should the Berkshire Museum sell its art? Why the answer matters to museum-goers from coast to coast 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z In “Guilt,” she starts out confessing, “Ooh, it hurts/It hurts so much I want to cry” over nothing but stark, bowed double stops; later, a contrapuntal cello melody becomes her companion in loneliness. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z As he grew, he studied the cello and helped out at the opera house as a production assistant, learning how a company operates behind the scenes. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z And when the orchestra met his challenges — in the magnificently crisp, precise performance of the winding cello line in the third movement, for example — the results were thrilling. Music Review: Recreating a Bill of the Obscure and the Familiar 2011-02-25T23:59:27Z "It got so bad that I could not play the cello without being inebriated. My nerves were that bad." Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Fifteen years ago, a mysterious top-hatted figure and a parade of circus performers interrupted a wedding in a music video with an unconventional soundtrack: an energetic pop-punk song with a bouncy, carnivalesque cello opening. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z “Here I Am” has its own gaggle of oppressively endearing and overachieving children, with their cello and fencing lessons and precocious existential questions. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Knowing Disney Hall well, Mehta seated the cellos and basses left-center, the best way to get a firm bass sound here. With a farewell on the horizon, Zubin Mehta's concert with the Israel Philharmonic is a triumph 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z So the neighbor kids are playing her a cello concert from her patio. Join our happy thread: things that bring a smile in these hellish times 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z The clarinet and cello come to the rescue by playing rising, beckoning melodic lines that animate the stuck-in-place piano and crest to intense highs, only to dissolve over and over into descending cascades. Music Review: Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico 2012-07-29T20:46:59Z At times, the cellos and basses have the texture of Baroque continuo accompaniment. Steve Reich Talks About His First Orchestral Work in 30 Years 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z With its keenly-arranged ukulele, cello and maudlin accordions, it helps that the song sounds so utterly French that all the stereotypically monochrome cinematic images of Romantic Paris spring to mind. Houellebecq makes sweet music 2011-03-02T12:12:31Z So cellist Oliver Coates will play some of the composer's solo cello work live during the performance – at the dawn chorus section, when we hear a nightingale. The echoes of Benjamin Britten's 'composing walks' 2013-01-30T19:00:10Z There’s a cello player who was also a trucker. Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Not only does Steuart perform on a historic 1750 German cello equipped with gut strings, but he also eschews amplification whenever possible. Bach, beer pair up for a different kind of classical event 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z The supple, insouciant Jones of yore peeks through the paraphernalia on the wistful "She's 22" and the divine "Travelin' On," with cello and chugging acoustic guitar. Norah Jones gets a makeover from producer Danger Mouse 2012-04-30T21:28:03Z Although proficient on a number of instruments including guitar, violin, cello and trumpet, Hunter never appeared on stage with the Grateful Dead. Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead’s poetic lyricist, dead at 78 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet listen to his brisk interpretations — coming in about half an hour shorter than a typical cycle — and hear how Mr. Gandelsman doesn’t even attempt to replicate the cello’s character. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Several are veterans of the “Once” Broadway or touring companies, including music director Andy Taylor, who can be spotted playing cello or guitar and portraying a bank manager. At SCR, the musical 'Once' raises its hopeful voice 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The look was dramatic, but when he sat still for the slow movement's cello solo, the orchestra held together just fine. ASMF/Isserlis/Bell ? review 2011-03-08T18:30:17Z The elegant performance preceded an extraordinary rendering of Bach's Third Brandenburg Concerto in which Seattle Symphony first violinist Cordula Merks led 10 players, three each of violins, violas and cellos, plus double bass, and harpsichord. Seattle Symphony goes for Baroque in 'Like Father, Like Son' program 2012-03-10T20:40:13Z Sometimes the interplay of these worlds was delightful: the caramel sound of the cello relaxing into the twang of the quanun. Can Opera Become an Agent of Change? 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z These six works are the Everest of his instrument’s repertory, offering a guide to nearly everything a cello can do — as well as, many believe, charting a remarkably complete anatomy of emotion and aspiration. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z In the orchestration, Ms. Auerbach’s use of a flute and a cello playing in very high register gives the scene an otherworldly quality. Arts: Taking a ?Little Mermaid? to Dark New Depths 2010-03-20T00:33:00Z “It’s very hard to write anything for solo cello and not have some subconscious relationship to Bach.” A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z I sat in the crowded, delightfully musty Long Island instrument shop Samuel Kolstein & Son and tried cello after cello, pushing them to extremes of tone with meaty chords and soft, high harmonics. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z The prelude to the second act mingled lyrical expansion, somber brasses and a strangled stutter in the cellos; the Chicago winds these days combine artfully, their variety of textures united by their shared phrasing. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The coordination in the final scene of Act I was shaky, and the single-minded focus on the cello line in “Batti, batti” a bit extreme, but much of the performance was crisply paced and played. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Staged by Claus Guth at Staatsoper in Berlin 2012-07-08T19:24:24Z Orchestral textures that start off as a hollow whistle gather force like a storm that buffets the solo cello. Review: Under Salonen, the Philharmonia Orchestra Shines 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Now we want to convince those curious friends to love string quartets — the intimacy, intensity and joy of two violins, a viola and cello. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love String Quartets 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z A central slow movement revolves around a cello solo that was rapturously played by Byers. Three L.A. cellists save the day with last-minute musical theatrics for the Phil 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z The writing for the soloists is at times cruelly exposing, while the relationships between them constantly shift: the piano is nearly excluded at one point; at another, the work threatens to become a cello concerto. LPO/Eschenbach – review 2012-11-15T17:59:00Z The dialogue between past and present is productive and fertile terrain in the music landscape, and plenty of people mine it; composers have been tackling Bach-like cello suites for years. Review | Bach Unwound: Cellist offers another new look at solo suites 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Arvelo grew up in the mountainous state of Mérida and learned to play the cello before becoming a filmmaker. Meet the film director helping Dudamel paint the story of 'The Creation' inside Disney Hall 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The stripped-down format – the album's 130 musicians were replaced by just guitars and cello – was arguably superior, as it focused attention on her stunning voice: a crystal mix of innocence and frets. Natalie Merchant 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z Most of the cello’s range, however, is smack in the middle of the orchestra as a whole, and it’s terribly easy for a composer to overscore the music and swamp the soloist. Waiting for a Masterpiece from Esa-Pekka Salonen 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Bright consonances and buoyant grooves in David Claman’s “Like This,” for violin and cello, suggested half of the Kronos Quartet in action. Music Review: Cutting Edge Concerts Continue at Symphony Space 2010-04-06T22:28:00Z A creeping wave of bass, cello and tom-tom drifted in from nowhere, only to fade away. Mica Levi and orchestra go truly 'Under the Skin' at the Regent 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Felix plays the cello to soothe his easily rattled nerves, and Oscar doesn’t appreciate it. Review: Matthew Perry in an ‘Odd Couple’ Refitted for a New Century 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Roberts’s scabrous then lyrical cello can be heard on “Hop On Hop Off,” while Swift’s improvisatory contributions help start the track “Left.” For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The cellos and basses played with paranoid intensity: they restated the initial theme as if it had just been woken up in the middle of the night by the secret police hammering at the door. Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra/Litton | Classical review 2010-03-24T22:35:00Z The heritage official declined to say how much the cello was worth. Stradivarius cello broken in accident in Spain 2012-05-07T13:22:38Z You have now broken that rule once; can we expect you to return to the piano or cello? Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Tilson Thomas managed to make it fresh and moving, holding back the tempo to create space around it, while the cello section introduced it with a quiet intimacy, speaking as with a single voice. A renowned American orchestra shows its refinement 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z At these performances, there were singers, horns, a cello, and more guitars than seemed strictly necessary. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z In that sense, the cello, in both design and execution, was very much the piece’s animating force, passing through light and shadow, and knowing something of both. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It was followed by Saariaho’s “Aure” for violin and cello, a quieter but no less beautiful work whose title refers to “a kind of delicate morning breeze.” Koh shines in luminous works by Ravel, Debussy and Saariaho 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z Her calendar for 2022 alone includes 11 world premieres of compositions that range from a solo cello piece to a major choral work commemorating 100 years of women’s suffrage. Highly sought-after composer Reena Esmail debuts new piece with Seattle Symphony 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The musicians highlighted the mysterious and brooding character of the first movement, which opens with a questioning cello motif. Music Review: London Haydn Quartet Brings Its Gut Strings to the Morgan 2014-01-22T20:26:03Z David Soyer was born on Feb. 24, 1923, in Philadelphia to nonmusical parents and took up the cello at the relatively late age of 11. David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z “Bowery Haunt,” a rock-inflected electric-guitar duet, and “Anthem Hunt,” a pensive quartet with a prominent cello part, establish Mr. Johnson’s flair as a performer. Scott Johnson, Kyle Bobby Dunn and Dither Go Electric 2010-06-18T15:23:00Z Barber’s concertos for cello and piano return dividends as great as the Violin Concerto, and Schuman’s Sixth and Eighth Symphonies and his “Showcase” can still move, challenge and excite audiences. Two Composers, Honored Silently 2011-07-30T04:00:25Z The forward-pressing rhythms of the opening, played over a howling glissando in the cello, are repeatedly interrupted with rough chords. Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z There's a formidable canon of solo pieces for cello too, of which Bach's six cello suites are generally regarded as the daddy. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z Over this calm surface floats the cello’s angular figures. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Its focus on solo violas, cello and violins in turn also made it a good companion to Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli. Aldeburgh festival – review 2013-06-09T18:51:30Z The exhibits date from what is considered his golden period of 1700-1725, when his instruments became the classic models on which later violins and cellos were based. Biggest UK Stradivarius show planned 2013-05-14T17:13:02Z Professionals around the world play her violins, violas and cellos; one of her first instruments is played regularly at La Scala. There’s More to Cremona Than Violins 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z But, no, it was just Ma on Tuesday night on the Bowl’s giant video screens, his cello amplified to sound as though it were 20 feet high. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z A native of New York City, Beder has been playing the cello since she was 11. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z His cello possesses an unusual, falsettolike sound, a little diffuse, but sweet and songful. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z The slow middle movement was especially alluring, with a violin-and-flute duo playing a contemplative melody over a drone of bass clarinet and cello, with high tinkling piano sounds above. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z And he’s now pushed further back in time, releasing his interpretation of the pinnacle of the Baroque cello: Bach’s six suites for the instrument. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Between these, Jay Batzner’s dreamy “Slumber Music” dealt in shifting perspective, dominated first by the cello, then by the piano. Music Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at Joe?s Pub - Review 2011-10-27T22:44:59Z It soon becomes apparent that, were you to swap the titular phenom’s glove for, say, a cello or a paintbrush, the movie at its core would remain fundamentally unchanged. Ethan Hawke and Paul Giamatti on Baseball and Parenthood 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Her voice and her cello are the only sounds she uses for nearly the entire album; and now and then, she might whistle or clap her hands. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z Certain of the cello phrases end on high notes; I hope I never forget how he highlighted this by extending his line to its highest. Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z But she refuses to be daunted by holding her own playing up against such giant figures of the cello world. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The cello and the other instruments in what is now called the Witten-Rawlins Collection epitomize the National Music Museum’s period of avid acquisition. The National Music Museum, an Unlikely Eden in South Dakota 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z “Listen to that mournful cello!” he would exclaim during the song’s florid introduction. The Music of Don Shirley Is More Resilient Than Any “Green Book” Cliché 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z At one point, a solo French horn played a stark motif, joined in sequence by fluttering clarinets and a woodland stir of flutes and oboes, before the cellos brought in an anchoring line. Review: A New-Music Concert by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z There’s unspeakable tenderness in the Romance for violin, and raw vulnerability in the title track for cello. Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Tigran Mansurian and More 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z “Gold,” the first movement, began with a melancholy cello melody buoyed by gentle pizzicati. Review: Hannah Lash and Her ‘Life Partner’ at Miller Theater 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z A violent burst from the cello egged the others on for a bit, and then there was yet another falling apart. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Would she be happier with a violin or cello?’” he said. Solo for Flute, Airport Terminal and One Listener 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z On the contrary, in the cello sonata it's probably just a little moment of absent-mindedness on Debussy's part which has slipped unnoticed into print. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z And if you want to create any kind of sonority or resonance within the orchestra, the notes that you usually use for that are taken by the cello. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Robert Schumann intended to craft an alternative version of his Cello Concerto, re-scoring it for cello and string quartet, but never got around to doing so. Superb program shows off virtuosic technique 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z He made a specialty of arranging works for solo cello, cello and piano, and string ensembles. Laszlo Varga, Cellist for the New York Philharmonic, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z The crowning event of the night was a preview of Spectrum Dance Theater's "Love," a new Donald Byrd work set to Benjamin Britten's cello suites. 'Spotlight on Seattle': performers go to town in dance city 2012-06-07T19:12:13Z Embarking on what would become “The Reinvention of Romance,” Ms. Hennies experimented with the cello, notating ideas she found compelling and grouping them into concise cells. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s a marvelously apt metaphor: Woods is an artist rooted in classical music, but whose cello is a vehicle that takes him, and his concertgoers, on wide-ranging journeys. Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z One of the new roles that’s emerged is contemporary cello goddess. Review | Bach Unwound: Cellist offers another new look at solo suites 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z She said she has played her cello at the Kennedy Center in the past. Joel, Santana to receive Kennedy Center Honors 2013-09-12T16:31:51Z The music features purring and suckling noises, as well as Teie on his cello accompanied by players from the US National Symphony Orchestra. Careless whisker: Universal to release album for cats 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Bands also used a lot of instruments not normally associated with rock: French horn, vibraphone, celesta, violin, cello, tuba, euphonium, pedal steel, autoharp and acoustic bass. Sasquatch! Fest a heady brew of old and new 2011-05-31T01:08:05Z Piatigorsky was the first cellist in this country to open the doors for the cello to be considered a solo instrument. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The immediacy of his sweet, soulful playing, coupled with the tonal purity of his 1707 Joseph Guarneri cello, made for gorgeous phrases in Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. Review | A childhood dream to perform ‘Meditation’ 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The duet for cello and percussion comprises some 90 minutes of spare, economical gestures, played not quite in sync. Sharing an Intimate Musical Vision 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z There are so many permutations and combinations of different instruments you can come up with just by adding another cello. Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z Occasionally, the shifting stew of clanging synthesizers, yearning cello and swirling guitar reverb swallows the words. Sharon Van Etten's expansive vocal talent sings from the darkness 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Idiosyncratic instrumentation was also a factor in Prokofiev’s “American” Overture, a jaunty, episodic curtain raiser for 17 players with strings limited to a cello and two basses. Music Review: Orchestra and Violin, Matching Wits 2011-04-01T22:59:41Z Today the Arditti Quartet plays two of his string quartets, works for solo cello and violin, and the song cycle Got Lost. This week's new live music 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z A native of Oklahoma City, deMaine started playing the cello at the age of 4. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Yet there is a freshness and immediacy about his interpretation that is wholly compelling, as the two Bach cello suites in this solo recital amply demonstrated. Alban Gerhardt ? review 2011-04-12T17:27:59Z The forces here were much smaller, with five voices instead of two choirs and an instrumentation of cello, clarinet, horn, harp and theorbo, instead of full symphony orchestra. Hebrides Ensemble – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-26T17:30:02Z To my ears, the three sonatas written for flute and continuo sound odd without a cello as part of that continuo. Bach: Flute Sonatas – review 2013-02-14T21:15:01Z The production is slated to feature animation, live cello music, vocal improvisation and sound scapes by contemporary composer Hugh Livingston. Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa in the spotlight, and a celebration of Kafka “I was aware when I was writing the music that the camera might be right up on a cello,” she said. They filmed the opera 'Vireo' on Alcatraz. Soon you can stream it on your iPad or phone 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z Then it's replaced by the rhythmic strum of acoustic guitar and waltz-time gait of the cello. New band of the day ? No 891: Tristram 2010-10-20T16:14:00Z Insistent cello motifs underpinned melodies in the upper strings, punctuated by energetic outbursts and elegiac passages. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z From the start, he was drawn to the cello. Cellist Arron: chamber music champion, Seattle chamber-fest fan 2013-06-19T23:07:26Z Here, in a neighbourhood that lacks a basic sewage system and where night military incursions are commonplace, the presence of violins, flutes and cellos feels almost revolutionary. Palestinian children's orchestra inspires youngsters at refugee camp 2011-01-14T17:05:56Z Yo-Yo Ma will perform a solo recital — unusual for the Bowl — of Bach’s six cello suites. Hollywood Bowl's 2017 lineup: 'Harry Potter,' Misty Copeland, 'Mamma Mia!' and more 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z The chords, performed in unison by an ensemble including electric guitar, drum kit and cello, are surrounded by vertiginous breaks. Blind Listening: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Music Moments 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Belaga also moonlights as an occasional bartender and model as “a support system for the cello stuff,” he said. Patrick Belaga Is a Cellist Who Moonlights as a Model 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The booze and razorblades are much easier to master than playing the cello. On the Boards offers 'radical' lineup this year 2011-10-02T04:01:05Z There’s more Bernstein on Sunday, too, when the young players of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra perform his “Three Meditations From ‘Mass,’” in which Yo-Yo Ma is the cello soloist. 4 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z His music, from the Oscar-winning scores for the “Lord of the Rings” films to his recent concertos for piano and cello, favors long melodic lines and unmessy orchestration. Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Sorey and Woods both share the influence of the late George Walker, the first African American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize, who approached his own cello concerto nontraditionally. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z The first movement, “That Which Happened,” begins with ethereal textures that thicken, with the addition of pizzicato plucking and meatier cello lines, as the harmonies grow troubled. Pacifica Quartet Presents Shulamit Ran Premiere and Classics 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z In between songs she was shyly cheerful, during them she was transformed, whether raising her voice in anguish or emoting over the benign hum of a cello. Green Man festival ? review 2011-08-22T17:15:00Z The scenario is underpinned by a rigorous musical scheme, and Núñez's performance, and that of the Concertgebouw cellos and basses, is impressively vivid. Olthuis: Capricho; Villa-Lobos: Ciranda dos Sete Notas; Gubaidulina: Bassoon Concerto, etc – review 2013-05-23T21:00:03Z Weinberg’s chamber music — including 17 string quartets and solo string sonatas for not just violin, viola and cello but also for double bass — is also rich in variety. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The choir reassembled up front for elegant, clear-textured accounts of two sublime Bach motets, accompanied only by continuo cello and chamber organ. Review: Berlin Radio Choir Honors Bach and Those He Influenced 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z A. There will be many people who have never seen a cello before. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Still, it’s not every role that requires you to immerse yourself in learning a half-dozen new skills, including fencing, canoeing, archery, German and twice-weekly cello lessons. Jenna Ortega Knows What Wednesday Addams Wants 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z But while he philosophizes, the band, including a cello, backs him with the enthusiasm of buskers, keeping the songs grounded. ArtsBeat: Bands, Bands, Bands 2012-03-18T18:49:08Z Undeterred by the skepticism of his wife and others, he immersed himself in the routine of cello lessons and solo practice, even attending music camp in the summer. ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman But this concert of solo works by Bach — not living but always worthy — should be a highlight; it includes works for violin, lute, piano, cello and organ, in this case the seldom-heard instrument at Tully. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z In “Turangalîla II,” a solo cello had the burnished strength of a horn. Review: Jaap van Zweden Returns to a Changed Philharmonic 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z This trio — for piano, violin and cello — is a work in a decidedly French mode that Ms. de la Martinez said verges on Impressionism. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z After, he’s like: Let’s reflect on how Yo-Yo Ma talked about how he would feel playing the cello. Sona Movsesian Leans on The Rock, Cher and Mister Rogers 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z And Ms. Michelson’s music produces real chills, as when the piano and cello land on the same plangent note. In ‘Inner Voices,’ Two Solo Musicals About Illness 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z If Yo-Yo Ma quit cello for three months, I suppose cellos would get pretty worked up about it. Goodbye, Patton Oswalt: An Internet troll vanishes, still wanting it both ways 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The same few banal themes are recycled atop formulaic note-spinning from the solo cellos, who have cadenzas at the beginning and end. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z In the second half, climbing pizzicato lines throbbed under a Hebrew vocal, and the leader's Song for My Brother set viola motifs against Yael Shapira's pulsing cello, before a thunderous double-bass improv. Avishai Cohen with Strings – review 2013-05-08T16:48:00Z The festival's namesake of course figures highly here, with performances of his cello suites, the St. Matthew Passion and keyboard and violin partitas. Summer Stages: Classical 2010-05-07T21:59:00Z His mother and eldest sister had both studied the cello; his father was an Army veteran. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z So when actor Dermot Mulroney, a longtime cello player in Giacchino’s orchestra, appeared on The Late Show, he slid the title “Los Alamos” into his chat with Stephen Colbert, without knowing much about the project. What It Was Like to Compose the Rogue One Score in Four Weeks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The original melody occurs only in the chorus of Katie Moss's version – the 'fiddle, cello, big bass drum' part. Cornish Floral Dance: a fuzzy custom 2011-07-07T21:00:02Z Edwards was one of the early members of ELO and was remembered not only for being a brilliant musician but for his party trick of playing the cello with pieces of fruit. Family of ELO's Mike Edwards calls for new safety rules after hay bale death 2011-03-15T16:57:07Z But there was interconnectivity in the way individual composers approached the solo cello. Composers’ Collectives Offer Creativity and Challenges 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z From the moment I was introduced to the cello in third grade, I liked its comfortable fit, the way its mellow tone seemed to emerge from my whole body. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z Like the Mozart quartet, which it emulates, Jadin’s begins with a slow introduction clouded with smoky dissonances over a weary heartbeat played by the cello. Review: Quatuor Cambini-Paris Revisits Neglected French Composers 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z She boasts a husky tone and a pensive touch on the cello, favoring wide arcs of melody that often allude to the blues. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z One sunny but chilly morning, Mr. Johansen opened his case to find his cello beaded with condensation and was terrified he’d ruined it. Strapping On His Cello for a 600-Mile Bach Pilgrimage 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z There are male and female harmonies and the multi-instrumental surprises — guitar, cello, violin, harmonica, xylophone and whistling. Music Match: If You Like Fleetwood Mac, Try the Kopecky Family Band 2013-05-14T16:44:20Z The third movement was somber and ardent, led by beautiful cello solos and the unforgettable rumble of the contrabass clarinet at one point, and the fourth shuddered with the pitiless march of implacable, triumphant death. National Festival Orchestra’s bright performance is a gift 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z In “ocean,” that dramatic trajectory resulted in ever-firmer evocations of the cello’s more booming stature — with Campbell gradually moving beyond initial, wispy, cotton-string disturbances. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z “Don Quixote” is a virtual cello concerto in the guise of a symphonic poem. Barenboim brings West-Eastern Divan to D.C. for the first time 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “He’s turned the cello into an orchestra,” said the reed player and composer Marty Ehrlich, who worked with him for more than a decade. Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z During the Pantoum, the Ravel was more sensation than sound: the deep cello rasp of hair against gut; shimmers of glissando from the piano; piercing intrusions by a worried violin. Review: Chamber-fest concert nourished body, mind and soul 2010-07-15T20:56:00Z This eclectic work for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano blends popular and classical styles, with references to songs like “Blue Moon” by Rodgers and Hart, and incorporates both strict and free notation. Music Review: Following a Contemporary Palette as It Ranges From Peru to China 2011-01-25T23:14:56Z Mikhail quickly packed a few personal items into a handbag, grabbed his cello and his music. From Russia to Pittsburgh with classical music 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z “I studied a lot of different instruments — woodwinds and piano and brass and cello. And then I finally put everything away and just kept the pencil going.” Before he won Oscars for his music, composer Howard Shore helped kick off SNL 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Harrell, known for the penetrating richness of his cello sound, was in a commanding mode right from the first solo entrance. Music Review: The Met Orchestra Ends Its Season at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-12T22:37:50Z The cello is such a versatile instrument, just about anything can sound good — except for rap. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Back on 34th Street in Mount Rainier, Beder, 69, said she started her mini concerts a week ago, with a cello made around 1870 in Prague. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The orchestra reveled in each twist of this buoyant and surprising piece; navigating the bluesy harmony in the setting of Psalm 23, the grain of the Los Angeles cellos suggested a divine shuddering. Review: Dudamel and Los Angeles Bring the Noise to New York 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Shostakovich’s seven-minute Allegretto, composed in the early 1960s, bears its composer’s signature boldly in dark themes shared by the viola and the cello and quickly darting violin lines in Shostakovich’s sardonic folk dance style. Music Review: The Brentano String Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-22T21:57:58Z It has continually updated the rhythmic core of songs from its 1980s heyday that still provided the concert’s peaks; “Temptation” echoed the cellos of Lou Reed’s “Street Hassle” for its intro. Review: New Order, Still a Clockworks of Suppressed Emotion 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Intonation sagged in unaccompanied choral sections, and there were discrepancies in sustained high woodwind chords and in the agreement of cellos and double basses on the bass line. Review | National Philharmonic soloists boost an otherwise delayed, derivative event 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z If Yo-Yo Ma announced he was taking three months off from the cello, would he get the response Oswalt is getting? Goodbye, Patton Oswalt: An Internet troll vanishes, still wanting it both ways 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Stephen Sondheim’s “Send in the Clowns,” wistfully sung, with an added cello part played by Emil Miland, ended the formal program. Music Review: Frederica von Stade?s Farewell to Carnegie Hall 2010-04-23T23:54:00Z The cello emerges as the first among equals in this concerto. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z For this recipe, be sure to look for dried fettuccine packaged in cello bags — the noodles will be eggy and delicate-looking, not the straight and wider dried fettuccine in a box. This pasta dish, starring summer leeks and shrimp, tastes good at any temperature 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z “Pacific” was accompanied by excerpts from another magnificent Harrison work, “Trio for violin, cello and piano,” where the rumblings of a kind of sonic Siberian peat bog yielded gradually to a shower of light. Mark Morris Dance Group’s many surprises flow naturally at GMU 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z About half way through, a solo cello starts a Steve Reich-like riff that gratifyingly infects the whole work with rhythmic life. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z There were also more acoustic strings, whether guitars or cellos or banjos or Wu Man’s lute-like pipa, on which she played traditional Chinese music like a fingerpicking bluegrass shredder. Big Ears Festival Stars the Avant-Garde 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z She’s a true virtuoso, and it was in the solo cadenza passages that her artistry was truly on display as the clarity of her cello was even more readily heard. Review | Shanghai Symphony Orchestra debuts at Wolf Trap 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, there were moments of elegance, joy and even whimsy: a glistening violin solo from the concertmaster, David Kim, in the Dvorak, or basically anything the cellos touched with their warm, translucent feeling. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Their instruments included a cello, violins and even a Steinway & Sons grand piano. Mobile orchestra tries to bring cheer to Venezuelan streets 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z He accompanied his mother, a pianist, to a performance in Moscow, and while there took cello lessons with a professor at the Moscow Conservatory. Citing Ukraine War, an American Resigns From Russia’s Mariinsky 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z The most resonant voice in the strings section, the cello has been described as the instrument that most closely corresponds to the human vocal range. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z After he leaves, he said, he plans to spend more time teaching, composing, performing solo cello music, and touring with the jazz singer Tierney Sutton. Turtle Island Quartet Finds New Cellist in Carolina Chocolate Drops 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z He played cello in the school orchestra and took private lessons from Loran Stephenson, a cellist in the nearby National Symphony Orchestra. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The bulk of the program was devoted to the two sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms, bedrock repertory pieces completed roughly 21 years apart: the first in 1865, its successor in 1886. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z She stopped and looked expectantly at the Harbinger playing his cello. Eighth Blackbird Performs ‘Colombine’s Paradise Theater’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z They seemed, instead, consumed by the cello the way other compulsive teens might be by comics or rap or sports or Snapchat. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Using a violin, a piano, a cello and a guitar, the three students worked through three songs that received a warm reception from the audience. Eagles' Glenn Frey teaches songwriting; talks tour 2012-11-16T04:18:11Z The second movement in particular, a vigorous Allegro, begins with a rhythmically steady pizzicato figure, shared by the violin and cello; the flute and clarinet briefly weave an inviting line around it. Music Review: The neoLIT Ensemble?s Women?s Works at Bargemusic 2010-05-30T22:02:00Z There are many other symbols purply dotting the story: ducks, a cello, laundry, that soup. Review: Real Russians and Fake News in ‘Describe the Night’ 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z She learned the piano, bassoon, cello and viola, and she attended conducting classes as a teenager; her teacher refused to let her work with an orchestra while his male students could. Nathalie Stutzmann Ushers In a New Era at the Atlanta Symphony 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Martin has said, in fact, that one of the arrangement’s highlights — the descending cello line, after the lyric “I’m not half the man I used to be” — was Mr. McCartney’s idea. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z He started by taking a cello, and making the cello as in-your-face as possible. Virus Pushes the Bang on a Can Marathon Online 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z Among them lay the empty hull of a soft cello case fashioned out of the same gleaming plastic as a police body bag. Music Review: Maya Beiser in ‘Elsewhere’ at BAM 2012-10-18T21:51:15Z The haunting, primordial arc of Ms. Bathgate’s cello line soared above the thick layers of eerie electronic sound, providing an enticing aural backdrop to Mr. Noguchi’s intriguing sculptures. Review: Ashley Bathgate Wraps Kate Moore’s Music Around Noguchi’s Stone 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z In other words, he was just a guy, playing a cello where he wanted to play it, and playing it well. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Majeed found his cello player running a tea stall; others were selling clothes or electrical parts. Jazz album by Pakistan music veterans tops western charts 2011-08-05T13:15:43Z Lately, in cooperation with Columbia University’s Miller Theater, he has been performing free solo programs of Bach’s cello suites along with new works by various composers in different locations around the campus. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The current season includes works as diverse as Schnittke's viola concerto, Hindemith's cello concerto, Takemitsu's Requiem and Charles Ives's The Unanswered Question. How Marin Alsop plans to put São Paulo Orchestra on the map 2012-08-14T18:00:02Z The children in the academy, ages 7 to 12, were given the choice of learning the piano, violin or cello, and receive instruments to keep throughout the three-year program. Can Philippe Jaroussky Help Fix Classical Music’s Diversity Problem? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Mumford’s dusky, warm mezzo added mystery to “But who may abide,” where a full complement of cellos and basses added further depth to the continuo part. Music Review: New York Philharmonic’s ‘Messiah’ at Avery Fisher Hall 2013-12-19T23:38:51Z The writing was sensitive and superb — a mellow horn line emerging from a cello melody; a clarinet solo seeming to hand the music to the grander, stormier piano-horn pairing — and the mood introspective yet smiling. Tanglewood Holds Its 50th Celebration of Contemporary Music 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z So they’re actually learning how to play the 20th note or the 19th note on their cello. Singer-songwriter Falu goes back to Bollywood 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The evening's concerto was Friedrich Gulda's for cello, scored for an orchestra of woodwinds and brass with one double-bass and a small rhythm section. Morlot debuts with charisma, substance 2011-09-18T18:59:45Z For many years he taught cello and chamber music and conducted the orchestra at San Francisco State University, where one of his students was Kent Nagano, now the conductor of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra. Laszlo Varga, Cellist for the New York Philharmonic, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z A young cello virtuoso who earned rave reviews for his performance at the royal wedding will be making his U.S. orchestral debut with the Seattle Symphony this fall. Cellist from royal wedding to appear with Seattle Symphony this fall 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z Lutoslawski’s densely dissonant funereal music dissipated into isolated notes on a lone cello, which were then subsumed in the enveloping warmth of Brahms’s consolatory opening. A Chord Vanishing Into Eternity: The 8 Best Classical Music Moments This Week 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z Most of the Purcell and much of the Britten used continuo accompaniment: mere harpsichord and cello. Review: Orchestra of St. Luke’s, With Susan Graham 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z But her next album, Solo, to be released in October, is a collection of works for unaccompanied cello, charting its development as a solo instrument over the course of the past century. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Beyond the family and friends, there were decades of UW students who learned the foreign language of music from her, as well as her students who honed their cello skills with her experience. Acclaimed Seattle musician Toby Saks dies 2013-08-01T21:09:42Z “Fragments” is a new, multiyear series in which Weilerstein plans to pair each of Bach’s six cello suites with new works she commissioned for the project in general, but not for any suite in particular. Review: ‘Fragments’ Proposes a New Kind of Cello Recital 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z She studied violin before eventually settling on the cello. With every flick of her baton, conductor Susanna Mälkki chips at classical's glass ceiling 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Programming pulls into focus on Tuesday when an ensemble of gifted string players place dibs on Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and “15 Sinfonias for violin, viola and cello” in arrangements by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T17:27:04Z He took up the cello as a boy and graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles, with a degree in music history. Jonathan Gold did more than critique the Los Angeles food scene. He defined it. 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z I looked in Christoph's cello part to see if he had a more complete instruction at that point, but it said the same thing: "sempre" appeared as a stand-alone word. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z The instruments set the mood: The piano plays thick, grating chords that split into glancing strands of delicate notes, as the violin and cello sustain tonally murky sonorities and break into soft, oscillating squiggles. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The cello emerges from the restless mists playing fragments that want to coalesce into a line, but seem held back by enshrouding strings. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Goldston did accept an opportunity last year to be the soloist in a cello concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z And now “Lost Coast” is taking on yet another life, its grandest yet: a cello concerto, premiering on Thursday with Cabezas and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Gabriella Smith’s Music Marvels at Nature With Grooving Joy 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z We have everything from very small just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments. What to Expect From the Upcoming Game of Thrones Concert Tour 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Indeed, Jarvis says that his doubts about the authorship of the cello suites arose when he perceived “vast differences” between these works and the ones for solo violin. The Search for Mrs. Bach 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Maybe they couldn't physically transcribe what music for, say, a cello. Daft Punk's unlikely journey into the 'Tron: Legacy' universe 2010-12-26T06:00:00Z When I’m gone, this will still be here, helping people learn the cello. It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Frank is writing this season's commissioned piece, the world premiere of a suite for solo cello that Roman will perform. This season TownMusic salutes composers who perform; kickoff concert is Sept. 28 2010-09-23T23:06:00Z The cello she played at church, the wrapping paper she reused at holidays, the back issues of Reader’s Digest that she kept on the bookshelf. Perspective | The queen’s funeral doesn’t have to be about the queen 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Ma, who has been on the contemporary forefront of stretching the cello’s theatrical and repertory possibilities, remained conventional in a recital program with pianist Kathryn Stott that took no chances. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Cue the cello: An all-new "Shark Week" gets underway with the specials "Shark Trek," "Island of the Mega Shark," "Monster Mako" and "Shark After Dark." TV This Week, July 5-11: '7 Days in Hell' and more 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Not surprisingly the Largo from Chopin’s Sonata for cello and piano was the most convincing of the three classical arrangements. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z The strings—with the unusual instrumentation of five violins, five violas, and five cellos, giving a drum-and-bass boost to the acoustic low-end—surrounded the singer in a semicircle. Björk's Healing Music 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The cello soloist — here the eloquent, calmly commanding Gautier Capuçon — begins alone, notes subtly bending to evoke the twang of a qin. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z But over 20 years we kind of got used to it, so the combination of pipa and cello is not strange to us anymore. Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man: A Concerto Conjures a Chinese Golden Age 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Minimalism, expressionist harmonies and punk rock energy blend to combustible effect in this high-octane piece for 10 cellos. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z In the land of chamber music, violin, viola and cello are barely company, let alone a crowd. Camerata Pacifica introduces John Harbison's curvy string trio 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z There are sentimental themes, where the piano is in quiet dialog with the cellos, and other portions where it seems to use all 88 keys in every phrase. Seattle Symphony opens Masterworks series with impressive program 2010-09-24T21:29:00Z This recital, titled “21st Century Women,” features Segev playing recent solo cello works by five of our more prominent female composers. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Q. Is the cello repertoire a barrier for engaging the public? Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z The music turns kinetic and insistent, with interplay between the cello bongos and congas, deceptively charming music that is actually anxious. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Clarice Jensen, the guest cellist, hadn’t yet rehearsed with the ensemble, and there were a few awkward minutes getting everyone together, since the scores for cello and singers didn’t quite line up. Can Meredith Monk Teach a Musical State of Mind? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z In “ocean,” each string of the cello is outfitted with a cotton thread attached to the strings of a nearby violin. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z But the center of the cello register is where it’s generally densest in the orchestra. Write Me a Concerto: Yo-Yo Ma and Esa-Pekka Salonen on Their New Work 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The first single, “Be Mine!,” was built on a cello riff that raced like a heartbeat; it narrated the ecstatic tragedy of watching the person you love fall in love with someone else. “Honey,” Reviewed: Robyn Has Returned, and She Has What You Want 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He's the first chair violinist, but he's also a violinist in Brooklyn Rider, and his brother plays cello. Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Canellakis’s dark and sinewy tone and fiery virtuosity added depth to two Bulgarian folk songs he skillfully arranged for cello and piano. Music Review: ‘Look and Listen,’ at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery 2013-05-20T20:43:17Z They’ll be showing off their talents, which include Jubilee who plays the cello, the twins who are dancers, and Amanda who juggles. 'The Bachelor' Watch: What Happens In Vegas 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Among the youngsters in the group was Mr. Mingus, whom Buddy persuaded to switch from cello to bass. Buddy Collette, Musician Who Played With Jazz Greats, Dies at 89 2010-09-29T04:30:00Z They handled instruments like found objects: a violin propped against a hip, a cello tilted at a rakish angle. At GlobalFest, a World of Music, Costumes and Messages 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The six cello suites of Johann Sebastian Bach are different things to different cellists. Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z Slatkin's reading favored flat-out symphonic brilliance more than atmosphere, although his subtle handling of dynamics as the cellos crept into the hazy opening pages of the first movement was much to be admired. CSO goes to the mat for sub conductor 2011-01-21T17:34:13Z Sitting with Goldston in that church, it’s impossible not to be seized by the weighty lyricism of her amplified cello as she plays it. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Elfman, ever the productive songwriter, has already moved on, finishing a cello concerto and working on back-to-back film scores. Danny Elfman writes a solo album with ‘venom’ pouring out 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z Come that November, Weilerstein had put her cello away, and she was taking long walks on the beaches near her home in San Diego instead of practicing. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z This 10-minute duo is filled with passages in which either the cello or the violin provides insistent accompanimental figures as the other breaks loose in elegiac, fitful melodic flights. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z Among the youngsters in the group was Mr. Mingus, whom Buddy convinced to switch from cello to bass. Buddy Collette, Jazz Musician and Bandleader, Dies at 89 2010-09-28T04:00:00Z The mood was more candied than mysterious in the second-movement “night music,” its lilting cello section feeling genuinely nostalgic rather than tangily sardonic. Review: Alan Gilbert Leaves the Philharmonic, Violin in Hand 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Ms. Gabetta played a solo encore: an obviously contemporary piece that posed major technical and expressive challenges even before she started to sing a haunting vocalise in counterpoint to the cello lines. Review: Mostly Mozart, Highlighted by Sol Gabetta’s Haunting Vocalise 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z That abyss expands in a huge ensemble crescendo, part sex, part death, the cellos at the strident top of their range, before the roar drops out. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z There will be cellos on stage, but don't expect Liddell to play them. On the Boards offers 'radical' lineup this year 2011-10-01T19:45:32Z Then there's 12 cellos in Brett Dean's "Twelve Angry Men," inspired by the book and film. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Both composers were also represented with characterful works for solo cello, deftly performed by Ms. Jensen. Music Review: A Lutoslawski Tribute Includes ‘Bukoliki’ 2013-12-17T22:09:30Z She sings about impending storms and destruction, but the music ascends into a glimmering psychedelic wonderland, with simulated cellos and sitar. Soccer Mommy Summons a ‘Tidal Wave’ of Feelings 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The orchestral heft of the added strings — nine violins, three violas, two cellos, and a double bass — further burnished the dusky glow of many sections in the Brahms. Review: American String Project is the 'Glee' of the classical realm 2011-05-13T20:09:14Z The Finnish pianist Olli Mustonen's "Triptych" for three cellos plays with Postmodern tropes sounds old and new at the same time, moody and exuberant also at the same time. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z He directed the ensemble from the cello and conducted larger pieces. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Conductor and Early-Music Specialist, Dies at 86 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Expressive cellos reveal the characters’ thoughts, and the horns add an aura of muscularity and honor. Review: Beethoven Returns for the Age of Black Lives Matter 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It begins with several of the cellos playing a scratchy, jumpy rhythmic riff; their lines hovering above, other instruments slide around, making spectral sounds. Review: Terry Riley Works at National Sawdust 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, longtime colleagues and friends, have played Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano for some four decades, and won Grammy Awards for recordings of them in the 1980s. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The cello sat between the legs, and the violin required rigorous slicing movements; the piano was considered far more ladylike. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z When he awoke, he excitedly told his wife that he had the opening for a cello concerto he was working on for Yo-Yo Ma. Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia play larger than life on Southern California tour 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Even better, there's Sophie's struggle to find the courage to endure and succeed as she tries to find the source of the strange cello music floating up from somewhere in the sleeping city. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z A debut album of acoustic and electric cello music, Terminal, was released in 2010. The future of music: technology is amazing, but 'music's a human thing' 2013-06-15T23:05:20Z In a way, it’s the musicians playing cellos and timpani and such who are the interlopers. | Classical Music: So Rhapsodic That the Birds Join In 2013-07-18T21:26:34Z Mr. Gautier’s cello sometimes seemed a mere foil for the snarling horns and woodwinds. Music Review: Nézet-Séguin Brings Philadelphia Orchestra to Carnegie Hall 2014-02-23T22:56:56Z The perky-reflective songs are played by a small combo of piano, keyboards, guitar, bass, cello and percussion, so the music can be driving or mellow, depending on the state of romantic confusion. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “Mania” is a … well, manic concertante work for cello and chamber orchestra, pointedly excluding a cello section. Review: Celebrating Sibelius and His Slowly Imparted Secrets 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z "This is my new baby," he said, lifting the cello from a bed in the ground floor guest room. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z Soon the piano is churning with rumbling figures as the cello becomes strangely restless. Review: Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich, in a Stirring Concert at the Frick 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z They started with the script, which Mr. Nolan — who takes cello lessons “as a form of relaxation,” he said — wrote with a musical mind-set. Ticking Watch. Boat Engine. Slowness. The Secrets of the ‘Dunkirk’ Score. 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Last November, as part of Town Hall's annual TownMusic series curated by Roman, the Oklahoma native and 2011 TED Fellow played, in a single concert date, all six cello suites by Johann Sebastian Bach. TownMusic series kicks off with night of piano trios 2012-09-06T20:25:09Z Mr. Schiff performed and recorded nearly all the standard works of the cello repertory. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z It's entirely possible – I've tried it – to make this technology think you're playing a beautiful scale but by using a piece of fruit to play your cello instead of a finger. The future of music: technology is amazing, but 'music's a human thing' 2013-06-15T23:05:20Z “Suite” is for a man alone onstage with a cellist, who plays movements from Bach’s cello suites. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Kirshbaum is, in any case, the main reason for the regularity of international cello festivals. Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z Laszlo began playing cello at age 7 and later studied at the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. Laszlo Varga, Cellist for the New York Philharmonic, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-21T05:00:00Z We did a show up in the hills and Grace, who plays cello, had to stand in the audience! Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z In fact, my first ever TV appearance was playing cello in a program called “Fanfare for Young Musicians.” Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z Listen to how the cellos add tension to the song's intro or the way the violins enhance the emotional intensity of Nelson's soulful vocals. Elton John, the Beach Boys and the fine art of pop alchemy 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z The latter group sounded most promising when it let Spx do her thing without the cello and sax refinement. Wild Belle rules at SXSW 2012-03-17T16:10:00Z “Bach is one of the only composers who wrote for unaccompanied cello.” Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The pieces use software to fundamentally alter the sound of flute, cello, bassoon and violins. Finally, a Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z A great deal of space is left for Russell’s music to float through the film, from his groove-locked dance floor firecrackers to his scratchy cello pieces coalesced with whisper-in-your-ear vocals. My streaming gem: why you should watch Wild Combination 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The work’s prominent solo cello part was played by the brilliant Maya Beiser. Music Review: On the Express Train to Hell and Other Sonic Journeys 2010-12-05T23:14:00Z Chan got the job as the Seattle Symphony’s third-chair cello in late February, and his public debut was a week later. He conducted at 3 and now he’s playing with Seattle Symphony: Cellist Nathan Chan 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z In the festively decorated Morgan Library atrium, servers passed caviar and savory turnovers while a violin and cello duo played carols. Smithsonian’s new fundraising strategy: collect collectively 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z He started as a child prodigy on the cello before switching to the baton, winning prizes at the Paris Conservatoire and then stunning the jury at the 2005 Besançon conducting competition. First sight: Lionel Bringuier 2010-08-05T22:52:00Z But when played by the strange combination of an Arabic fiddle, saxophone, frame drums, zithers, cello and harpsichord, Bach’s melody sounds decidedly Turkish. Music Review: Ensemble Sarband in White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-21T23:11:33Z “Why do you think this was written for cello and not violin?” he asked. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “I would not want to play this in Carnegie Hall,” said Mr. Haimovitz of his Bohemian cello. More Musicians Are Trying Period Instruments 2013-08-30T19:44:02Z Their runs and riffs propelled the soloists to a peak where violin and cello traded emphatic statements before agreeing on a joyous ending. Taipei Symphony makes Strathmore debut with pride and passion 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z The Prelude of Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello is mostly a sequence of chords played in flowing arpeggio figures. Sprawling Across New York, a Solstice Music Marathon 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Height, in feet, attained by Moorman in a 1976 performance of “Sky Kiss” in Sydney in which she played cello while being lifted by several helium balloons. A musical tribute to an unconventional — and unclothed — cellist 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Lin’s double concerto is most ambitious toward the end, when resolutely tonal sound blocks from the tuned percussion and brass evoke a still landscape, crossed by flutters from the woodwind, cello and sheng. Review: The New York Philharmonic Celebrates the Chinese New Year 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He played his own transcriptions of two Bach cello suites, No. 1 in G and No. 2 in D minor, and the quick dances were notable for their clean, precise lines and perfectly judged balances. Music Review: A Guitarist Adds Depth With Some Extra Strings 2011-02-21T23:01:33Z Also in Seattle, Pacific Northwest Ballet on Nov. 2 presents its first Morris commission, choreographed to Hindemith’s Kammermusik No. 3, featuring solo cello. Three Stars of World Dance Traditions Converge on New York 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z Now she asked Mr. Riley to perform to the cello “Swan” music from Saint-Saëns’s suite “The Carnival of the Animals.” Jookin in Memphis, Celebrated 2012-11-18T04:50:46Z He also played a Bach cello suite on the sidewalk outside the Russian Embassy in Washington. Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A long bridge—complete with a synthesized cello solo—follows. The Feminist Trailblazing of Sinéad O’Connor 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Scored for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, piano, cello and viola, “Backlight,” according to the program notes, explores the idea of light and shadow. Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs Meredith Monk’s Instrumental ‘Backlight’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z She played multiple instruments as a child but settled on the cello, rising to become the principal cellist of the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in her mid-20s. A Conductor Considers Her Future 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The 30-minute piece is a "virtuoso cello concerto but also a fascinating multimedia experience that defies simple classification," Marc Satterwhite, the award director, said in a statement. ArtsBeat: Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award 2012-11-26T03:00:14Z Expect crunchy electronic treatments of her cello, as well as traces of acoustic virtuosity. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z David Harrington, the quartet’s first violinist, said the group chose it because it contains the “earth mother of all cello solos in the quartet repertory.” Music Review: Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-06T20:08:04Z When Yo-Yo Ma strolled out from the adjacent Starbucks and into the crowd with cello in hand, someone in the audience gasped, "Oh, my goodness!" Yo-Yo Ma helps launch Citizen Musician movement 2011-01-30T22:21:00Z Now he had Madison Square Garden at his fingertips: this earthbound Cirque du Soleil of woodwinds, violins, drums, and cellos, plus the robed choir, was all his. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z He sped the piece up, and moved the song to a higher key so that he could use the vibrant sound of the cello’s lowest open string. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Her clearly articulated, lyrically imaginative cello playing can fulfill a range of roles in quick succession: melodist, beat maker, textural accompanist. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Iain Forrest, who plays an electric cello at Grand Central under the stage name “Eyeglasses,” said things seemed to be coming “full circle” to how they used to be. Gauging Our Return to Office and the Subways, One Tip at a Time 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z An baby abandoned in a cello case is rescued by an eccentric-yet-loveable academic, who takes her to live in France. Longlist released for 2013 Guardian children's fiction prize 2013-06-03T08:57:35Z The King cello lives in Vermillion, a city of 10,692 in the southeastern corner of South Dakota. The National Music Museum, an Unlikely Eden in South Dakota 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Rieger began planning her retirement two years ago, hoping to learn how to play the cello and other things her busy working life never left her time for. What Wendy Rieger learned from Washington 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z He asked the musicians to play a section of the symphony without the cellos and basses, then with them. Dennis Prager draws classical newbies, and a musicians' boycott, at Disney Hall concert 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z He divided the first and second violins, had cellos and violas in between and placed the basses on the opposite side of the stage. CSO: Hough, Elder, Tchaikovsky a match made in heaven 2011-01-07T20:59:00Z By the end, Ms. Bathgate was practically sawing at a string while twisting the cello’s peg and painfully contorting its pitch, the classical equivalent of smashing a guitar against the stage. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Furthermore, these five cello sonatas fit tightly on a two-hour concert program, providing a concise overview of Beethoven’s three compositional periods. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z On “Holding Cell,” a highlight, voices harmonize over swarming violins, cello and electric bass; the harmony shifts tensely around them as they sing: “Holding cell/I can’t get well while you hold me.” Samora Pinderhughes Explored Incarceration in Song. The Result Is ‘Grief.’ 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z For Mr. Marclay’s show, Ms. Levi wrote a work for drums, violin, clarinet and cello. Christian Marclay Sees in Sound in a Show at White Cube in London 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Brows are knitted to mournful cellos, Poppy shouts from a motorway bridge, and there's a lot of staring out to sea, which inevitably brings on further flashbacks. TV review: The Ice Cream Girls 2013-04-20T07:00:44Z An enormous cello on which a ballerina rests her leg while bending to adjust her shoe almost fills one half of the composition while the other half is occupied by a cluster of young women. Exhibition Review: Degas: More Than Just a Ballet Master 2011-09-23T12:00:07Z As she spoke, a series of long, low tones came from Nioka Workman’s bowed cello, and Michael Wimberly issued a gargle of percussion from the clay pot perched in his lap. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z After conquering the violin, Mr. Zee taught himself the viola, then the cello, then the bass. Possessed: A Fashion Career Starts With a Violin 2011-08-26T22:51:54Z “Live in London” is dedicated to Daniel Cho, who is seen playing the cello throughout the film; he drowned in Switzerland in July while on a European tour with Ms. Spektor. | 'Regina Spektor: Live in London': Passion at the Piano 2010-11-19T06:05:00Z It reminds me of practicing cello as a child, bowing the same phrase over and over, until something inside told me it was possible to move on. Song of the Summer: “Femenine,” by Julius Eastman 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Ben Sollee made one of Mr. Simon’s more prosy songs, “Wartime Prayers,” a solo for voice and cello that captured its hope and mourning. Music Review: Tuneful Paul Simon Tribute Bridges Decades 2014-04-01T22:19:25Z The first violin, he said, was intended to be "fantastic, ornate and mercurial"; the second was "laconic and orderly"; the viola was "expressive"; and the cello was "somewhat impetuous." Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z The cello part, which Grieg wrote for his brother, is immensely taxing without sounding overtly virtuosic, while the piano writing demands delicacy as well as great strength. Chaushian/Wass – review 2013-01-09T18:27:18Z And I get this tape in the mail, reel to reel, with just piano and a cello and the two girls singing their beautiful harmonies. Linda Ronstadt Has Found Another Voice 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z It was like the joyous final scene of “Dirty Dancing,” except that Baby was alone, plucking a cello. Listen to Dom La Nena 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z “It’s very unpredictable. It almost seems improvisatory, and uses the cello as a kind of dramatic singer. It’s a great display piece.” Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z On the program are a work for cello and sampler inspired by whiskey and music for piano and electronics influenced by Hurricane Sandy. Classical Listings for Sept. 4-10 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z A. Casals was a pioneer in establishing the cello as a virtuosic solo and communicative instrument for the masses. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Growing up in Maryland, he began playing music when he was 5, studying classical music and learning six instruments: violin, cello, upright bass, piano, guitar and mandolin. | Lo-Fang: Lo-Fang Embraces His New Success 2014-02-20T16:20:22Z But this sonata, written in 1978, takes expressive tension to neurotic heights, pushing the cello line to near breaking point in the two slow movements that frame a furious scherzo. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z Five facts and things * There are fewer cellos in orchestras than violins because they produce a greater volume of sound. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z A complex, dissonant chord slowly built throughout the orchestra at the start of Robert Honstein’s “Rise,” set alongside cello strums in a potent juxtaposition of sounds gentle and eerie. NY Phil Biennial Provides Showcase for Emerging Composers 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Pat Metheny's Question and Answer is reinvented as Question the Answer, there are pieces of swaying samba-jazz, and Tom Waits's Take It With Me is an uncluttered vehicle for his words, cello and bass. Georgia Mancio: Silhouette 2010-06-17T21:20:00Z Trills and brushy arpeggiated motifs conjure the Bach suites at the center of the cello’s repertory, as the solo line goes back and forth from anxiously repetitive riffs to serene, expansive lyricism. Review: A Chinese Concerto and a Romantic Classic Gaze Back 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z A Flock of Keyboards, Gathered in the Round When people refer to piano quartets or piano trios, they generally mean a piano and some other stuff — a violin and a cello, say. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z The audience perambulates around the building following the six singers and three versatile musicians: cello, violin and harpsichord. Dido and Aeneas; Aurora Percussion Duo, Bartosz Glowacki; Alina Ibragimova & Cédric Tiberghien – review 2013-01-13T00:06:16Z In fact, there's a numinous wildness in Tavener's stratospheric writing for the solo cello, and the blazing intensity of the textures he finds from the string orchestra. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z James Taylor first studied classical cello, which explains his bass-cleffed, self-taught style on the guitar: He thumbs a bass line while picking the melody with his first three fingers. James Taylor’s strength was melancholy. Now he must cope with contentment. 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z For several years now this cellists collective have been reimagining the work of local artists with full-on arrangements for a stage full of cellos. Portland playlist from Justin Ringle 2013-05-24T23:10:32Z Learning to play jazz guitar while absorbing folk and world music on Folkways — plus listening to more and more rock — the foundation of her intuitive approach to cello was forming. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Beder’s daily 30-minute cello concert in Mount Rainier, Md., is one of hundreds of kind gestures being made by people across the nation to combat the dislocation and isolation brought on by the novel coronavirus. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z He further blended the sound by moving the cellos from the orchestra’s outside edge to the inside, and the violas from inside to outside. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z What is it about the cello that makes it so amenable to rock? They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z In the first movement, it was absorbing to note how the orchestra built up not only volume, but also layers of sound, with mild cellos offsetting the bright, lacquered gloss of the violins. Music Review: Matthias Pintscher Leads Juilliard Orchestra in ‘Bereshit’ 2014-04-12T01:20:16Z Reading him on these scruffy men and women is like listening to someone try to play “Long Tall Sally” on solo cello. A Mother Keeps Wartime Secrets in Michael Ondaatje’s New Novel 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z “We imagine this place being a place where humans don’t go, not to mention the cello,” Chacon said. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Indeed, that’s exactly what happened when Germain spent three days with the National Symphony Orchestra in early December assessing some 70 violins, violas, cellos and basses, and 110 bows. Ivory, at the tip of a complex issue for traveling orchestra members 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The work is defined by interaction between the live musicians and a mysterious woman in the film, whose actions appear to reflect the cello soloist. ArtsBeat: Dutch Composer Wins Grawemeyer Award 2012-11-26T03:00:14Z Da Capo’s solution was lovely: a frenetic opening, with vigorous repeating figures for violin, cello and flute, settled quickly into a quiet, atmospheric meditation and then suddenly evaporated. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-10-12T21:03:33Z “I don’t want to suggest that a viola or cello can’t do these things,” he said. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Seated near her amplified cello in the sanctuary of an acoustically superb North Seattle church, Lori Goldston describes a recurring dream. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z And, with the cello, she constructs string orchestras, while using pizzicato, tapping the bow on the strings or knocking on the cello body to give herself a rhythm section. New Music: A Great Big World and Linnea Olsson Release Albums 2014-01-20T23:07:13Z I was at the piano, seated next to an instructor who said, “Let’s see how you play,” when someone walked in carrying a cello. It’s Never Too Late to Play the Cello 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z His style, using a modern cello but a period bow, was waspish and rhetorical, with phrases picked apart and a buzz to the sound. Matt Haimovitz and Bach, Colonizing Columbia’s Campus 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z This time, the goal couldn’t be easier: Persuade those same curious friends to love the cello, that most soulful of instruments. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Cello (Published 2020) 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Sitting on his haunches, the fox leaned back and clutched his fat, feather duster tail between his legs, the posture predestined for a cello player. Art in Bristol, England, Moves Beyond Museum Walls 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Throughout January, four musicians playing two violins, a viola and a cello will work through hundreds of scales and arpeggios, using different techniques with their bows, or plucking the strings. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Video maestro, TV-mangler and orchestrator of daft performances, Paik persuaded his muse, Charlotte Moorman, to dunk herself in a tank of water before playing the cello naked, with tiny TV monitors strapped to her breasts. Nam June Paik: Watch with Buddha 2010-12-19T21:30:02Z In the second recitative, the “speaker” — our cellos and basses again — wants to teach them. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z In “KYRH,” she sets up layers of undulating, Minimalist piano chords and cello tones as she sings “Keep you right here,” contemplating stasis. Hayley Williams, All Alone With Her Memories 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z All three took part in the opening work, Tan Dun’s “The Triple Resurrection” for violin, cello, piano and orchestra, composed last year. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Celebrates Lunar New Year 2014-02-02T22:29:54Z The orchestra played with fervent understatement, if there is such a thing, and Robert deMaine contributed an eloquent cello solo. András Schiff and the L.A. Philharmonic join Haydn for a look at war 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z In the work’s finale, a cello line of bel canto sweetness was taken up, to leaden effect, by the bassoons and clarinets. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Only the anchoring cello line lent depth and body. Music Review: Cassatt String Quartet Performs Shostakovich at Bargemusic 2013-09-09T20:27:06Z For decades, though, Wadud’s only solo album, and seemingly the first unaccompanied cello album to combine such disparate vocabularies, was nearly impossible to find. Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z It will be fascinating — possibly powerful and moving — to hear what emerges from the joining of separate musical trajectories from an agile, expressive voice, cello and guitar. Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z She plucked her cello, sang, got people to stand up and dance, discouraged a clap-along with self-possessed charm, and glided through the crowd playing ukulele. My Favorite Cultural Moments of 2015 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Mabe Fratti, from Guatemala, brings maximal emotion to the Minimalist structures she builds from her vocals and the gutsy riffs she plays on cello. 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z Goldman’s book made me wonder: What if more people decided to learn the cello, or the piano, or the flute? ‘The Late Starters Orchestra,’ by Ari L. Goldman The centerpiece of the Bach festival will be performances of the six Taylor dances, which were created between 1961 and 2002 and set to Bach’s “Brandenburg” concertos, cello suites and other works. With Bach and Paul Taylor, Orchestra of St. Luke’s Plans Its Future 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Think of these, says Kaku, as the strings of a violin or cello. Tom Service on the sound the universe makes 2012-06-24T19:00:07Z Here’s the bow she uses to make it groan like a cello. Review | Yasmin Williams, a new kind of guitar hero, is listening to the world around her 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z He told me things about the work I'd never heard before, saying he'd wanted to make use of the cello's incredible expressive possibilities. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z This jibed with Dr. Altenmüller’s observation on Friday that the performers least at risk were those who played large instruments, like the harp, double bass and cello. Critic?s Notebook: Dystonia, Which Struck Glenn Gould and Other Musicians 2012-03-13T22:19:34Z “I feel like I was trying to kind of conform to these instruments that were clearly not made for my body,” Joyce says of her early encounters with cello and trumpet. For composer Molly Joyce, disability is no barrier to virtuosity 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Fisher ingeniously transfigured the sound world of classical Japanese Noh drama, with a harmonium making a gently coppery wheeze and the willowy viola da gamba trading off with its more powerful descendant, the cello. A Dance Steals the Show at an Opera Festival 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z I felt vulnerable as well, and this performance claimed me from the first moments, when the cellos played the muted, solemn descending first line. Review: For 9/11 Tribute, the Met Opera Returns Home 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years. Daft Punk recruited 90-piece orchestra for Tron: Legacy soundtrack 2010-11-19T11:30:00Z The sense of sound as a living organism was especially strong in Luca Francesconi’s “Encore Da Capo” for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano and cello. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series, With New Compositions From Italy 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Whether saxophone, cello, piano, violin or even an innocent, pinging triangle, it is also an instrument of exquisite torture, the kind people inflict on themselves by looking backward when they know they shouldn’t. | 'Ten Cents a Dance': Music, Memories and Regret 2011-08-15T22:20:09Z Perhaps “designated percussionist” would be a more appropriate term: Mr. Sánchez-Gutiérrez enlisted members normally assigned to flute, clarinet, violin and cello to play percussion instruments as well. Music Review: Look & Listen?s Informal Feel at Chelsea Art Museum 2010-05-09T22:21:00Z Carlos Iturralde's "Fata Morgana" was a sonic mirage, with a trio of winds offstage mysteriously altering the sounds of violin, cello and bass on stage. Liminar makes Mexico's Carrillo look like the next great rediscovery 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z The Beethoven survey at Carnegie continues with the first of three concerts from this chamber-music supergroup, all of which feature a cello sonata, a violin sonata and a piano trio: here, the Cello Sonata Op. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z He took her to baseball games, to his favorite restaurants, and after she noticed cello pieces on his piano they began playing together for fun. He Professed His Love at 16, Then Waited 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Haas uses just about every sound and combination of sounds a violin, viola and cello can make. Music Review: A Musical Question: Does a Quartet Sound Different in the Dark? 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution At this summer’s classical music concerts, you could of course find a healthy array of violins, trumpets and cellos. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z Mr. Dwyer began close to his home, at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, with the Suite No. 6 in D, which calls for a cello with five strings, rather than the usual four. ‘A Suite Ride Through NYC,’ Featuring Paul Dwyer 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z The added cello is, for Schubert, first a thickening agent, giving the ensemble a luxuriantly rich foundation. Calder Quartet takes a bow with a timeless performance 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z And Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata was a treat, with a singing, shapely cello line, unimpeachable interplay between the instruments and sharp contrasts between the work’s formal and folksy strands, and a singing quality overall. Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy 2010-03-08T22:19:00Z Whatever interest the performance generated was supplied by the three soloists drawn from the ranks of the CSO's extraordinary cello section, each a virtuoso in his or her own right. CSO and soloists shine under Dutoit, but Penderecki piece is dull 2011-03-18T17:25:13Z Elsewhere he proved both poetic and powerful, whether trading solos with the cello or ripping fiery glissandos near the rock-and-roll finale. Played by Czech Philharmonic, 1890s Dvorak sounds fresh as ever The piece is set to a musical playlist assembled and arranged — for accordion, flute, violin, cello and voice — by the violinist and composer Colin Jacobsen. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z "I think Tucker thought, 'Oh, it's just a little banjo girl, it shouldn't be too difficult' – until I showed up with two dozen musicians, a huge cello banjo and a 15-piece choir." Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z I'm sitting there, and nobody else seemed to have seen the elephant in the room – that this cello bow, with all this stuff fitted on it, bore no relation to a real cello bow. The future of music: technology is amazing, but 'music's a human thing' 2013-06-15T23:05:20Z A New Yorker who began on the piano and switched to the cello at age 9, she became a student of the great cellist Leonard Rose at Juilliard. Acclaimed Seattle musician Toby Saks dies 2013-08-01T21:09:42Z For the Stravinsky he rearranged the orchestra so that principal double bass Nikita Naumov sat where the principal cello usually would, and so featured almost as a soloist. SCO/Fischer – review 2013-02-03T18:43:21Z Tan Dun’s “Feige/Antiphonal Song” brought together soulful cello lines with prerecorded video of a Chinese vocalist singing a tangy ancient Hunan melody. Maya Beiser and Bang on a Can at the Jewish Museum 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z I scarcely knew there was enough cello octet repertoire to fill a concert, let alone justify the formation of a professional chamber group. PLG Young Artists ? review 2011-01-11T23:30:01Z Bach knew the mandolin, cello and bass in their earlier incarnations. Instrumental mayhem in the name of Bach: Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile and company 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Obviously if your child plays the cello and likes to curl up with the Iliad then it may not be much use. Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z The song of a nightingale – Britten's favourite bird – was joined by a live performance by Oliver Coates of the Ciaconna from Britten's Second cello suite, a clever choice given the warblings of the middle section. In Britten's Footsteps – review 2013-02-04T18:51:22Z It may feel as if the world doesn’t need yet another recording of Bach’s solo works for violin or cello. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z And in the finale the cello section's rapid articulation was curiously characterless in tone. Review: Israel Philharmonic plays familiar Mahler with unfamiliar lightness 2011-02-27T20:30:05Z And now, a few years later, I realize that my voice also has to be linked to what Casals did away from the cello. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Roman adds that he's excited to be premiering the cello version of his "Sonata Humana," originally written for bass clarinet. This season TownMusic salutes composers who perform; kickoff concert is Sept. 28 2010-09-23T23:06:00Z Runs in both piano and cello curled with delicate transparency, the fast movements feeling buoyant and airy. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z The cello, playing animated and often melodic lines, dominates, with not much competitive back-and-forth with the orchestra in the way of most concertos of that period. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But actually you started out with the cello. Taylor, still 'hungry' at 63, hits Carnegie Hall 2011-04-11T20:51:09Z But Haydn will never be the same, now that I've discovered the cello works. Critics' Picks: Shemekia Copeland, 'Is That a Fish in Your Ear?' and Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 performed by Mstislav Rostropovich. 2012-05-23T22:27:03Z For a long time, my cello lay dormant in my closet, barely remembered in its coffinlike case, draped with a sweatshirt. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z A manipulative cello interrupts the play’s minor-key tone far too often. | 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?': A Test for Humanity in a Postapocalyptic World 2010-12-03T22:31:00Z Together with Frank Bridge's masterpiece Oration, EJ Moeran's work is one of the two great British cello concertos that followed the example set by Elgar in the wake of the first world war. Moeran: Cello Concerto; Serenade, etc – review 2013-04-25T12:58:27Z After lessons from his father, Samuel, and at the local Settlement Music School, he took his first orchestral job at 16, in the cello section of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Jules Eskin, Cellist With Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dies at 85 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Picking up the violins and cello are doable. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z “Hay Wire,” with sliding motifs in the violin and cello, sounded sly, folksy and somewhat inebriated. New Music From Locrian Chamber Players at Riverside Church 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Even so, a sudden double-stopped fifth in one of the cellos — appearing sudden after what may have been 90 minutes of single notes played — registered as a gesture of monumental significance. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z I don’t think I will be able to write a second piano concerto, even a second cello concerto. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Just as the Berg ends with a quietly retreating viola, so here a similar if briefer farewell occurs with the cello. The Barber of Seville; Emerson Quartet – review 2013-03-03T00:06:19Z The scene where she sings a rousing version of the Cranberries’ “Zombie,” complete with cello accompaniment, is an absurd delight. ‘Ode to Joy’ Review: Reasons Not to Be Cheerful 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z After three years, she decided to leave the cello, and by the time she finished Panula's class, job offers were arriving. Malkki at helm of Finnish orchestra cracks glass ceiling 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z The arrangements of songs and dances by Dvorak for cello and piano are also beautifully sung. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Luiza Borac, Alisa Weilerstein, Cédric Tiberghien and More 2014-02-26T19:54:43Z When his voice broke, he took up the cello. Jordi Savall Evokes the Past by Hearing Its Music 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z Most of Thursday’s music was of this sort, like the opening cello solo, “Water,” composed and played by David Moss. Review: Satellite Collective Mixes Media and Messages at BAM Fisher 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Garenetska was also holding her cello, painted with bright geometric designs. DakhaBrakha Plays at the Global Beat Festival 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z His recordings include the complete sonatas for cello and piano of Beethoven and Brahms. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z The sonic possibilities of the cello are explored in the intense “Transitions,” powerfully rendered by Michael Nicolas. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Sakura's pieces — for one, three and four cellos — were more seriously European. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z With that, Ma grabbed his cello and serenaded Mrs. Daley and the rest of the crowd with a soulful rendition of one of his signature encores, Mark O'Connor's "Appalachia Waltz." CSO's Muti, Yo Yo Ma close youth festival with flair 2011-05-16T00:58:33Z A lone cello sighs and undulating strings retrace the obsessively circular thoughts of a king who believes himself to be deceived and knows himself to be unloved. In ‘Don Carlo’ Productions, Singers Tease Out a King’s Humanity 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z You could play a famous aria on the cello because everybody could whistle it. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z She plays cello, and for one song, a banjo. Cuddly ‘Monster Songs’ from married musicians at Fringe He walked Market Street, with his cello, and then, at sixteen, he ran away, eventually settling in New York to make his music. The Word-of-Mouth Resurgence of Arthur Russell 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z The most obvious of those threads is the number seven: seven acoustic instruments — violin, viola, cello, flute, harp, percussion and harpsichord along with synthesizer, augmented by electronics — traverse seven movements, each cast in seven sections. Exploring the Magic of Seven 2010-09-17T19:44:00Z It felt a bit like a Between the Ears programme in its use of haunting music to amplify its themes, but also Lives in a Landscape with accompaniment on cello, violin and viola. Radio review: Supermarket Symphony 2011-07-10T19:29:00Z In another room, Brown fist bumps a cello player and high-fives another before talking with a parent waiting outside. He believes in the arts as a basic right for kids. He is getting a $200,000 award for working for that 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z When audible, the cello playing was indeed graceful and colorful, but the work deserves more care from the performers. Cellist Cicely Parnas is still impressive in second D.C. recital, but there are caveats “We try to make a revolution, not only with cello playing but also classical music,” said Mr. Sulic, 28, who holds a master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music, in London. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Can even the loveliest cello playing of the most gorgeous music, the music seemed to ask, assuage this? Eschenbach, NSO prepare European repertory for European tour 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z “Did anyone notice the principal cellist who played his cello like a bass?” one asked. Symphony cellist Efe Baltacigil takes on Dvorák concerto 2014-03-20T21:15:55Z Within this frame, both beatific and ominous, Capuçon’s cello maneuvered: warm, bodily, determined. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The long tones and jingling small trills suit the lush Calders very well, but with a big cello festival coming up in Disney Hall next year, the original is what we really want. A quirky thread runs through L.A. Phil Green Umbrella quartet program 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The composer Marc Satterwhite, who directs the award, praised “Litanies” for its exploration of “virtually every sound a cello and orchestra can make together.” Music Inspired by Notre-Dame Fire Wins a Top Prize 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Especially memorable on Thursday were the understated eloquence of John Sharp’s cello solo during Amelia’s aria “Morrò, ma prima in grazia,” and the spine — sometimes strong, sometimes shadowy — provided by the timpanist David Herbert. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “Quake,” which is for cello solo and large chamber ensemble, is pretty much what its title suggests, the music of the ground not being steady under you feet. L.A. Phil's Reykjavík Festival begins with music of the Earth and singing in teacups 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The ensemble backdrop is crystalline, misty sighs, while the solo cello line expands into melancholy arias without words; sometimes the tone is passionate, dark-hued nocturne, sometimes ethereal lullaby. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Standing in front using a combination of cello and bass bows made using fishing line and hose clamps, a fork, spoons, a paintbrush, a kick drum pedal, and a drum stick. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z Lewis's primary school had no piano teacher, "which is why I started by learning the cello, at which I was not good at all". 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z To that end, the “Columbia Icefield” artists were preceded by MV Carbon, who made a rich, ripping noise on electric cello, vocals and electronics. Review: The Prettiest, Most Progressive Campfire Music Ever 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Imaginative and hygienic, Dillon’s digital rhythms are punctuated by acoustic instruments — cello, tabla, steel guitar — that pop up and vanish, playing peekaboo with the void. Review | Try listening to Beatrice Dillon inside and outside your head 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z The Serenata from Britten's First Cello Suite made a quirky encore, Lloyd Webber's plucked cello sounding like a big twangy guitar. Prom 37: BBCPhil/Lazic/Sinaisky - review 2011-08-12T10:37:25Z “But it’s hard to play the cello on your back. The bow doesn’t move the way you’re used to. Saliva doesn’t flow the same way.” Concert Choreography: When Musicians Get Up and Move 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z Anderson soon began channeling some of his despondence into “Litanies,” a 25-minute meditation for cello and orchestra. Music Inspired by Notre-Dame Fire Wins a Top Prize 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z Greenhouse was born in Newark, N.J., and began playing cello at age 8. Acclaimed cellist Bernard Greenhouse dead at 95 2011-05-14T16:54:06Z This disc includes two performances, one for piano alone, the other for cello and piano. Cage: Etudes Boreales; Harmonies; 10' 40.3" 2010-06-24T20:31:00Z Underscored by composer and sound designer Eric Shimelonis’s melancholy bass and cello music, the nine performers speak their lines with gravity and soul. Fable of grief has clipped wings at Theater J 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z As a youth he studied the piano, trombone and cello, as if anticipating the eclectic range of timbres on which his work would draw. Leslie Bassett, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Dies at 93 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z In three mini-concerts, spaced at regular intervals throughout the afternoon, he combined one of Bach’s solo cello suites with a new “overture” by a living composer. Review | Cellist challenges listeners in museum concerts 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z Michael Gordon’s meditative “All Vows” sends the cello wandering pensively in a minimal landscape. CD reviews: A cellist’s solo “Trance.” 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z As the middle child of five growing up in Alexandria, Virginia, Mulroney acted in “back yard” theatre and school plays, although his chief creative pursuit was the cello. Dermot Mulroney: 'I remember Charlie Sheen climbing over a balcony, half-clothed …' 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Then she remembered an intro to “Ode to Joy” that features her instrument, the double bass, and the cello. Happy 250th birthday to Beethoven, one of the greatest composers of all time 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z There’s that cello, and the fact that his infection is spreading alarmingly quickly. 'True Blood' Recap: The Sickness and the Cure 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z It features pizzicato cello and a subtle growl of organ, along with lyrics that revel in comeuppance. The Playlist: 21 Songs From 2016 That Nearly Got Away 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters After the sinking of the Victorian liner, Queen Mary, a baby girl with "hair the colour of lightning" is found floating in a cello case in the middle of the Channel. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell – review 2013-05-18T09:31:01Z But don't despair, cello fans: The concert will stream live on Town Hall's site and also Seattle Channel's. Watch Joshua Roman's Bach marathon online 2011-11-25T19:08:35Z I vividly remember sitting in my 10-year-old daughter's cello lesson, with a rather fierce music teacher, reading The Folding Star ... she scratched the bow, and I went a bit pink. Best literary sex scenes: writers' favourites 2012-07-06T21:55:26Z The instrumentation ranges from a trio of flute, cello and piano with tape delay to a 19-piece ensemble, and all are single movements lasting around 15 minutes each. Tenney: Spectrum Pieces ? review 2011-03-24T22:30:02Z A scraping cello on one path could have come from the trees, a bloom of jazz near Fifth Avenue improvises with the sunlight through the tree canopy. Perspective | ‘Soundwalk’ turns Central Park into an intoxicating musical adventure 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z The cello is the least acoustically penetrating of the trio's instruments, and he never pushed it. Review: All-star piano trio leaves listeners with a royal flush 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z On the other hand, Coppey’s rendition of the Franck, particularly the “Recitativo-Fantasia” movement, was the stuff of dreams: perfect cello playing and a sense of bardic poetry, making all the emotions real and alive. Some ‘perfect cello playing’ by Marc Coppey 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Looking ahead: Friday's concert offers more novelties, after an Andrés Díaz cello recital that pairs a Bach Suite and Xi Wang's "Rhapsody." Chamber-music fest: a little dessert, double helping of piano 2011-07-07T19:27:04Z In the pantheon of cello gods, a place is surely reserved for the late, great Pablo Casals — not least for rescuing from obscurity the six magnificent suites for solo cello by Johann Sebastian Bach. Paying homage to a man and his instrument 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z As an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, he took classes in acting, directing and film; he also played the cello in the symphony orchestra. Truth, Lies and Chinese Art Inspire ‘a Puzzle Box of a Play’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z You can’t have a standard string quartet—two violins, cello, and viola—without one. A $45 Million Viola? The World's Newest Most-Expensive Instrument 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z This was less of a problem in the earlier pieces, where the cello part is often doubled by the pianist’s left hand. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series The Cello Concerto includes musical gestures toward Clara Schumann, the composer’s wife, including a kind of dialogue between two cellos representing the spouses in the lyrical second movement. Berlioz ‘Symphonie fantastique’ at SSO on Feb. 13, 15 2014-02-06T22:34:39Z An ensemble of two violins, cello, bass, organ and guitar performed the selections featured here. Music Review: ‘Bolivian Baroque’ at Columbia University 2013-05-03T23:19:01Z What he is doing is far more interesting than . . . if he plays cello or whatever. The human cost of “playing god” 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Russell’s cello is often amplified, and occasionally moves into distorted timbres that are easy, now, to hear as forerunners of 1990s indie rock. Music, Theater and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “What a privilege to be able to play the cello at such a wonderful event. I can’t wait.” Gospel choir to sing at wedding of UK Prince Harry and Meghan Markle 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z Daniel Lippel held a guitar like a cello, trying to bow it while holding the slackened strings in one fist. Music Review: Julio Estrada, at Miller Theater, in ICE Composer Portraits 2013-05-17T21:03:20Z The evening began with a glittering account of Strauss’s tone poem “Don Quixote”: The Philharmonic’s Carter Brey played the extensive cello solo magnificently, and Cynthia Phelps excelled in the solo viola passages. Review: Son Confronts Father to End a Leonard Bernstein Festival 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z The third movement, “Chaconne: Giulio’s Song,” written for an amateur cellist friend of the composer, pits searching cello lines against a backdrop of aching, pungent harmonies. Music Review: Los Angeles Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-03-18T20:43:32Z Thrilling percussion-led riffs send the music soaring, only to subside, giving way to brooding conversations between bass and cello. Review: In ‘Steel Hammer,’ a Man and a Train in a Race and a Legend 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The cello, or some version of it, remained Ms. Moorman’s chosen instrument. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The horn appears to control masculine energy; the cello, the feminine. Europe concert diary: Harrison Birtwistle at the Proms 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z Saunier takes phrases from Deerhoof songs and arranges them intriguingly — bass for instance, doing something in the style of a Bach solo cello suite. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z The last one for cello was written in 2002, the year before he died. The L.A. music scene as seen through Berio's Sequenzas 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z At times the recording is no more than a click track, beats on what sounds like a wood block, and the violin, cello and piano weave deftly around it. Music Review: Joel Sachs Takes New Juilliard Ensemble to MoMA 2010-07-26T23:43:00Z The year Charlotte Moorman was born in Little Rock, Ark. She began cello lessons at age 10. A musical tribute to an unconventional — and unclothed — cellist 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Other guests included the always amazing vocalist Bobby McFerrin, who bantered with instrumentalists on their own terms, producing plausible imitations of percussion, pizzicato cellos and trumpet. Music Review: Trolling Heaven and Earth for Sounds 2011-06-08T21:24:16Z The opening Largo was an atmospheric creation in charcoal: Arron's husky cello drew the opening line, which was carried by O'Neill's viola and then passed on to the violins. Review: George Shangrow memorial added to Seattle chamber fest's Eastside opener 2010-08-05T20:34:00Z Her vocal lines are mostly routine arioso, while the ensemble writing is most effective when thinned to a single line – a teetering piano solo, perhaps, or a thrummed cello. The Lion's Face 2010-05-25T22:40:00Z For this performance, Ms. Hughes revisits the repertoire from her 2011 album, “Afterlife Music Radio,” a solo cello recording on which she plays compositions written specifically for her by musician friends. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Jeremy had worked with a small steel band before, but we're a big orchestra – 30 people in all – with cello pans, bass pans and so on. Jeremy Deller's Venice all-stars 2013-05-30T05:30:01Z In the first movement, the cello initiates many of the daring harmonic progressions, and Mr. Watkins played as if he relished the role of resident hothead that Beethoven here assigns to the cello. Music Review: The Emerson Quartet Plays the Mostly Mozart Festival 2013-08-21T21:27:12Z Beethoven uses the cellos and basses like a song without words, a recitative without words. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Haydn was not the first composer to write pieces for two violins, viola and cello. The String Quartet, Reinvented 2010-02-27T03:36:00Z A similarly dark mood pervades the first movement, which sounds as if several cellos were playing a mournful chorale. Classical Recording: Michael Hersch: Sonata No. 1 & 2 2010-04-30T18:41:00Z The work is indebted to Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff in structure and sound, with dark-hued cello melodies beautifully played by Mr. Altstaedt. Music Review: When Youthful Ambition Was Restrained by Prudence 2011-03-28T22:21:23Z The cellos and double-basses were incisive at the start of Tchaikovsky's fantasy overture, and the violins achieved gossamer delicacy as the love theme surged and flowed. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z Effusive sentiment is an inherent risk of the cello, with its thundering sonorities and timbre so like the human voice. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z The 21 variations on the Passacaglia are punctuated with cadenzas for cello, viola and violin in turn and these anguished outbursts were delivered with passionate conviction by the Vertavo players. Vertavo String Quartet – review 2013-06-11T18:09:14Z Soon, fragments of themes and a mournful solo cello line try to emerge into something definitive. Review: The Philharmonic Hails Sibelius, and Offers Joshua Bell on a Mendelssohn 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z After “Die Walküre,” Nézet-Séguin insisted that the cello section stand for applause — a touching acknowledgment of the leading role it played. Review: The Met Opera Orchestra Raises a Glorious Noise 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z Then we thought of “Smooth Criminal” because it would sound so cool on cello — that chk-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka in the start of it. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z "I've just finished the first movement of a concerto for the cello!! Don't be surprised," Dvorak wrote to a friend in autumn 1894. Weilerstein brings Dvorak to Proms 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z It also demands a virtuoso for the solo cello, in the spotlight for most of the score's 67 minutes. American Youth Symphony and National Children's Chorus members rise to 'Heaven Earth Mankind' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z But the melodies were lovingly shaped, as was the gorgeous opening theme by the cellos in the third movement, which was later repeated in a flawless horn solo by Jennifer Montone. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z Now, in the lustrous acoustics of First Baptist Church on Harvard Avenue, it was the turn of the viola da gamba, the viol family’s forerunner of the cello. Music that speaks, thanks to Pacific MusicWorks 2014-04-11T18:02:17Z It was the barest suggestion of sound — you couldn’t hear the cello at all, and the viola scarcely more than that — and yet it was music. Music Review: Venturing Into Noise in Search of Melody 2014-02-20T23:23:46Z Oscar Wilde chose the occasion of a Grosvenor opening party to make his first sensational appearance in London wearing a custom-designed suit following the contours and colour of a cello. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z Pianist David White will introduce his own Piano Trio, a new composition, with Onyx partners Meg Brennand on cello and James Garlick on violin. Onyx Chamber Players to cap season with Britten, Ives, world premiere 2012-06-21T20:25:07Z Whether it's a dark, majestic undertow running against an orchestra, or a warm, baleful solo cutting through the bluster of a rock band, cellos are lovely. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z Far the best part of the performance was a rapt reading of the central Andante, largely a dialogue between the piano and the lower strings, with divided cellos at times playing above the violas. Jun Märkl’s SSO concert a success — with reservations 2013-01-11T17:54:41Z Soon after he arrived in New York with his cello in 1977, music making filled his days and evenings. Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up 2010-12-05T00:17:00Z There are 15 great cello concertos against 40 great violin concertos. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z A 53-foot climate-controlled truck travels with the larger instruments — eight or nine basses; 12 cellos, a harp or two and all the percussion, including timpani, xylophone, vibraphone and snare drums. Small Army, Philharmonic in Tow 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Mr. van Zweden led a visceral, bristling performance — beginning with the bold statement in the cellos, and the violins’ entry, which was incisive and soaring. New York Philharmonic, Led by Jaap van Zweden 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Anchoring the program is Steve Reich’s “Cello Counterpoint” from 2003, in which the live soloist weaves through the kinetically sparkling texture of seven recorded cello lines. Cellist in an Echo Chamber, Echo Chamber 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z It is a double bass, not a cello. Perspective | 21 for ’21: Composers and performers who sound like tomorrow 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The cello was what I played the longest, and my teacher asked me to stop taking it.” Jason Stein Puts a Jazz Spin on the Stand-Up of His Half-Sister Amy Schumer 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z “Really, in a way, it’s a cello show,” O’Neill says, noting that the Schubert and Boccherini pieces both feature two cellos. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to play Seattle May 7 2013-05-02T21:28:14Z Skilled at eliciting variations of instrumental color with a bow, Mr. Wadud pioneered a pizzicato language on the cello that was sometimes subtle, sometimes booming. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Hough handled the chords with strength and delicacy, as if gently moving the cellos aside. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Stephen Hough and Andrew Manze 2012-08-22T21:35:17Z He is a 13-year-old cello prodigy, and she is the aimless young woman hired to be his nanny. Movie Listings for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z An usherette strikes a match, a woman plays the cello, a man scrawls a slogan on the window, which is immediately cleaned off by another. Zero Hour Bus Tours: theatre wakes up on the night bus 2011-08-01T12:18:24Z Even so, the festival continues with all manner of concerts and public master classes at USC and a program at Disney on Tuesday that includes a new piece for mass cellos by Anna Clyne. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z In “Svyati,” a setting of Russian Orthodox liturgy sung in Old Slavonic, the foremost voice was that of Mr. Rath’s cello, sounding a wordless paean atop choral lines that rose and fell with pious sobriety. Music Review: Washington Square Music Festival With West Village Chorale 2012-07-11T21:56:11Z The oboist Stuart Breczinski vividly conveys a range of enigmatic moods and textures in “Ave Maris Stella”; the cellist Bryan Hayslett is the energetic soloist in two works for soloist and prerecorded cello tracks. Classical Playlist: Gluck, Jonathan Biss, Morton Feldman and More 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z The cello, he added, must also be the “rhythmic monitor” of a quartet by “setting the pulse, articulating points of rhythmic stress, conveying a sense of rhythmic direction.” David Soyer, Cellist, Is Dead at 87 2010-02-27T01:40:00Z He began playing the piano at 6 and the cello at 10. Heinrich Schiff, Cellist and Conductor, Dies at 65 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z “We are entirely appreciative,” singer Matt Bishop told the crowd, “that you guys are here in the wee hours of St. Patrick’s Day, willing to listen to some cello and acoustic instruments.” Seattle artists find fans at SXSW 2013-03-20T18:18:36Z The weakest part of the work follows, a murky section of standard post-Romantic dissonant waves under the quivering solo cello. Music Review: New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:29:19Z The cello, which already had a $229 coach ticket and its own boarding pass, was barred from coach when the gate attendant protested that it wouldn't fit in the seat. Believe it or not: News of the weird from the year in classical music 2010-12-22T21:46:07Z Punctuated with haunting cello solos played here by David Geber, the school’s vice president for instrumental performance, the work aptly conveys the optimistic denial and racked realization of Whitman’s text. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z The concept was elegant: on every Coney Island-bound F train platform, someone would be playing the prelude to Bach’s Suite No. 1 for solo cello continuously for an hour. Make Music Winter Brings Music Outdoors 2011-12-22T23:27:08Z The poor bassoons hardly do more than double the cello section. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The cello quartet sometimes produces an unsteady drone, sometimes spare counterpoint, sometimes strands of folk song. A Festival Adds to Opera’s Soaring Body Count 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The cello soloist was David Finckel, who recently left the Emerson String Quartet and — with his wife, the pianist Wu Han — established an annual chamber music program at the school this summer. Critic’s Notebook: Aspen Music Festival Embarks on New Era 2013-07-29T21:49:03Z Everything is so digital, streaming, high-tech, that there’s a certain reality—it’s like listening to a cello in a room, there’s a sound that resonates that you can’t record. “I’m not ready for the dirt nap yet”: How Toto outlasted the haters, took back their career and won over a new generation 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z It was about being told that a girl couldn't play guitar when you're sitting in school next to girls playing violin and cello and Beethoven and Bach. What happened to angry female music stars? 2010-03-25T22:30:00Z She went on to say that “Finnish government ministers are recording cello solos in support of Ukraine.” A Finnish Official Plays the Cello to Support Ukraine, Irking Russia 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Her mother played the cello in trios, on recordings, at Radio City Music Hall and, for more than 50 years, with the City Ballet orchestra. At Baltimore Symphony, a Cello and a Violin Make More Than Music 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Green is a multi-instrumentalist, playing anything from guitars to keyboards, cello, harp, banjo, percussion and zither, while his colleagues add bass, synth or viola. The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends: Folk Songs II – review 2012-08-02T20:45:01Z Original music by Michaël Attias — for cello and piano, blending neoclassicism with spiky atonal passages — provides elegant underscoring between scenes. | 'Autumn Sonata': A Fraught Mother-Daughter Drama 2011-04-28T22:18:19Z Like most such ensembles, this is a flexible bunch: the full roster includes mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, with the musicians playing in whatever combinations their programs demand. Music Review: The neoLIT Ensemble?s Women?s Works at Bargemusic 2010-05-30T22:02:00Z The concerto opens with a lone repeated note in an extended cello solo. Music Review: A Composer Who Rolled the Dice 2011-01-30T22:07:57Z Another may hold a cello sideways, like a guitar, then sideways in the other direction, then flip it upside down so that it rests on its scroll. Review: The JACK Quartet, With Instruments of Destruction 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z Why was there a sombre cello at my birthday party? My wedding was perfect – and I was fat as hell the whole time 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Somehow he even manages to practice the cello. Nine Broadway Shows Feature Child Actors 2013-05-30T12:00:01Z Film from the 1970s shows him as Beatocello, a clownlike character he created when he began playing the cello on European sidewalks beneath the red umbrella that became his symbol. | 'Beatocello’s Umbrella ': ‘Beatocello’s Umbrella,’ Charity in Cambodia 2013-12-12T23:51:55Z “So many institutions lament the dearth of really great violinists, and the cello department is the strongest.” Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z He composes his scores with computer software, and his concerts are kaleidoscopes of rising mists, extraterrestrials, warriors, heroes, spacecraft careening through solar systems, all to thrumming cellos, heralding French horns and spiraling flutes. Video game music comes to the orchestra concert hall 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z In the pizzicato-fest of the second movement, deMaine’s skittering cello and Park’s nimble piano scampered together so precisely they drew an audible chuckle from the crowd. Britten dazzles at Seattle Chamber Music Society festival 2013-07-16T19:09:15Z They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odessa Philharmonic — he plays the cello, she the violin — sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from “Star Wars.” An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Its construction is a compromise between an acoustic ideal and human limits: For its sound to bloom as effortlessly as that of a violin or cello, its neck would need to be impossibly long. Twisting for Solos, the Violist Is a Quartet’s Odd Player Out 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Roman performs all six Bach cello suites, 4 p.m. Joshua Roman to play a Bach cello marathon 2011-11-23T17:40:09Z From the first measures of Weber's overture to "Der Freischütz," Robertson highlighted the interplay of contrasting moods among low cellos, agitated strings, noble horns and joyous violins building an expressive portrayal. An explosive 'Doctor Atomic' at SSO 2012-01-06T19:09:04Z Ma took a place in the cello section without fanfare. CSO's Muti, Yo Yo Ma close youth festival with flair 2011-05-16T00:58:33Z Mr. Turkovic was absent in the final work on the program, Hummel’s Septet in D minor for flute, oboe, horn, viola, cello, bass and piano. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Tully - Review 2011-10-19T22:40:11Z The cello had an athletic workout during the first movement, full of frantic, scurrying figures. Music Review: Tribeca New Music Festival Features Jack Quartet 2010-06-06T22:14:00Z Seven Muses in slinky night robes sang solos — channeling Cleopatra, Endymion and Medusa — to haunting live strains of violin and cello. Regilding the Gilded Age in New York 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The violins and cello grow darker and more severe as the search goes on. The Unthanks 2010-06-05T23:06:00Z Apart from the clarinet and cello concertos, his best-known works are all vocal, either choral pieces or solo songs and his greatest inspiration came from his deep love and understanding of poetry. Gerald Finzi: the quiet man of British classical music 2011-01-27T23:41:00Z If Bach’s suites fascinate him, it is partly because they exploit the cello’s capacities more satisfyingly than any other music has. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z The cellos and basses bloomed with a warm, woodsy timbre, the pizzicatos firm and clear. In Yo-Yo Ma concert with L.A. Chamber Orchestra, simplicity outshines the showmanship 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In the Quintet, an unusual second cello adds gravitas. Poem of the week: Schubertiad by Fiona Sampson 2010-08-02T10:49:00Z She joined the artists who found solace on social media, streaming a movement of Bach’s cello suites each day, for 36 days in a row. A Cellist Breaks Music Into ‘Fragments,’ Then Connects Them 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Lestock, the teenage cello student at Meadow Brook, said in a telephone interview that he had a similar experience that summer in Mr. Levine’s dorm room. Met Opera Suspends James Levine After New Sexual Abuse Accusations 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z It was a fitting preface to Luna Pearl Woolf’s “Après Moi, le Déluge,” a strikingly allusive concerto for cello and chorus that movingly reflects on the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina. Music Review: Julian Wachner’s Trinity Choir at Zankel Hall 2012-06-03T22:24:45Z And they’re upbeat, at least on the surface, with hearty guitar strums, sinewy cellos, pumping horns and even some whistling. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z Rachel Stettler, the director of the Winsor School, an elite girls’ school in Boston, found her first cello teacher through a friend from high school, a professional flutist married to a cellist. In Middle Age, Reviving Dreams of Playing Music 2012-02-29T22:50:10Z Originally written for baritone, viola and piano, it was presented here in a version for baritone, cello and chamber orchestra. Music Review: Manhattan School of Music Chamber Sinfonia 2012-03-04T23:15:57Z A duo concerto — the New York Philharmonic plays the one Brahms composed for violin and cello next week — poses a challenge: triangulating the traditional soloist-orchestra dynamic. Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Dives Into Romanticism 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z One flurry of low arpeggios sounded like a full cello section. Review: Peter Evans Teaches His Trumpet a New Vocabulary 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Bach’s Solo Cello Suite No. 5 offered a tantalizing taste of Gerhardt’s recording of all six of the composer’s solo cello suites, to be released next month on the Hyperion label. Review | Cellist Alban Gerhardt proves to be a musical omnivore at Phillips Collection 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z And, as with Bach’s cello music, almost ceaseless motion here has the uncanny, unexpected effect of encouraging reflection. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Even in the sparse notes of the cellos suites there is a narrative and it becomes more hypnotic the less you hear and the less you hear it filled in. Wispelwey: Loneliness of the long-distance cellist 2013-01-31T11:21:34Z Much later that night, after midnight, the drummer Sameer Gupta played through his arrangements of Bollywood soundtrack songs with sitar, cello and viola appended to a jazz trio. Critic?s Notebook: Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival 2011-01-10T00:00:16Z The dancing figures straddle a cello that they are reimagining as a boat. Review: In ‘Difficult Grace,’ a Cellist Moves Beyond Classical Confines 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z The piece was familiar to Mr. Baker, who had played it on the cello when he was younger. Before Their Marriages Came These Proposals 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z And the reseating of the orchestra, cellos and basses displacing second violins on house right, was surely a retrograde step in stylistic terms. After the volcano, the show goes on at Seattle Symphony 2010-04-23T20:44:00Z He favors low instruments, with a pit band of two violas, cello, bass, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn and resonant percussion. In 'Marilyn Forever,' Monroe yearns to be merely herself 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Similarly in Saint Saens's Carnival of the Animals, you can imagine the dumpy elephants in the double bass section, or the elegant swan, gliding along during the cello tune. Why aren't there more musical instruments in children's books? 2012-09-28T17:21:46Z The other players twinklingly twittered as Campbell’s hand slid up and down the neck of his cello, for a woozy ondes Martenot effect. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z At the earlier show, the cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman performed an arrangement for cello of the CD’s title track, originally scored for bass clarinet and electronics. Review: Mario Diaz de León Plays Selections From ‘The Soul Is the Arena’ 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z The cellist — principal cello of the Seattle Symphony, and the current concerto soloist — got a hero’s welcome as he came out to play the Dvorák Cello Concerto with the orchestra and music director Ludovic Morlot. The audience was ready for Dvorák, and SSO’s cellist delivered 2014-03-28T16:07:36Z He played the cello, standing up, in a recent song called “Delancey,” redolent of another one of his heroes, the singer and songwriter Arthur Russell. Review: ‘Blood Orange and Friends’ at the Apollo 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z He will instead first complete a cello concerto for Yo-Yo Ma scheduled for next season, and he will move the orchestral score to the season after. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The cello is starting in a world where it doesn't know its place then eventually finds a place and surrenders itself to that. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z For example, Leah survived the cancellation of Living Dolls to become a human cello on during her reinterpretation of “Bad Romance” as an Argentine tango. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Maks Is Back! 2013-11-19T04:28:45Z When I was a teenager playing cello, it was my gateway drug to chamber music. Samuel West Takes Comfort in D&D, Mendelssohn and Ron Swanson’s Whiskey 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z In the Biber works the excellent continuo players were Mr. Stein, on both harpsichord and organ; Ezra Seltzer, on cello; and Charles Weaver, on theorbo. Music Review: Exploring the Intricacies of the 17th Century 2011-07-31T21:56:33Z Instead, there was an over-the-top manic edge to Arron's cello that did not quite sync with Park's precise, velvety piano. World-class musicianship on display at Chamber Music Society Winter Festival 2011-01-28T19:29:03Z “Four measures for nothing,” Wade Davis, a cello teacher, called out to his young string section, launching them into Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy.” An Orchestra Adopts a City, One Kid at Time 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Although it may seem less keening and dramatic than the violin, the cello makes up for hysterics with a deep, sonorous elegance. Hey, what's that sound: Cello 2010-10-20T14:43:00Z In his remarks before the performance, Peled joked that Schumann was not himself a cellist, and that the work was not written for the cello so much as against it. Chamber-music fest opens Eastside concerts 2011-08-04T20:01:09Z The concert began with Ms. Bullock, standing under an apse depicting the Archangel Gabriel’s annunciation to Mary, reciting an English translation of Rosario Castellanos’s poem “La Anunciación” over a cello drone. John Adams and David Lang: Masters of the Modern Holiday Oratorio 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z In the second movement of Beethoven’s Quartet No. 11, Mr. Sjolin brought a touch of stealthy danger to the seemingly innocent, descending solo phrase for cello that opens the second movement. Music Review: Danish String Quartet at Alice Tully Hall 2014-02-10T22:22:33Z Finally he added a harpsichord, an anachronism but at least a quaint and acoustic one, along with a cello, an accordion, some mandolins, lutes, whistles and a melodica. Why is a zany comedy troupe performing ancient Roman theater? The story behind the Troubies' 'Haunted House' 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z “Needle in the Hay,” also arranged by Jenkins, features trumpet and drums, but with this group, the cello is the thing. Portland Cello Project does Bach and…Elliott Smith | Concert preview 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Much of the music still revolves around her lustrous voice and her acoustic guitar, flanked by cello and banjo. Laura Marling?s British Folk CD ?Creature I Don?t Know? 2011-09-04T04:25:17Z When the violins and cellos enter, those instruments at first also play high, scratchy sounds. Review: With ‘Tao,’ Philharmonic Dives Deeper Into Andriessen 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “It has some of the most rapturously beautiful music ever written in the cello solos and the violin solos,” Ray says. Olivier Messiaen wrote music in a Nazi prison camp. Artist Susan Silton has asked women to perform it 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Bridge's Oration, Concerto elegiaco for solo cello and orchestra, a bleak but uplifting work, dates from this period. Bloch, Bridge, Hough: In the Shadow of War – review 2013-04-06T23:06:23Z In August, Mr. Peled will take the cello he calls “a wild horse ready to run” on a road trip across America. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Musically and technically, Beethoven was the first composer who really opened up the next level of possibility for the cello. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The orchestra somewhat incongruously included cellos and double basses, which laid down simple bass lines, but the bulk of the ensemble played long melodies in unison with the actor/singer. Peking Opera at Kennedy Center has the right moves, if not the best sounds It started as a burden, but through playing his programs and creating this buzz about having this cello, I found my voice. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Soon, the cello declares battle on the orchestra, breaking into raucous, vehement bursts of sputtering, manic phrases. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z For these occasions, the orchestra is now reseated in Schwarz's preferred configuration, with first and second violin sections on opposite sides of the stage, and the cellos to the conductor's left. A mighty Ninth and soaring voices 2011-12-29T17:30:06Z Built on a sequence of four high squeals of the cello, the piece borrows a certain head-on energy from rock music, with both players pushing to transcend the limitations of a rigidly repetitive structure. Review: New York Philharmonic’s Contact! Series, With New Compositions From Italy 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z The concert is to include excerpts from “The Nutcracker” and “The Firebird,” as well as Shostakovich’s first cello concerto, played by Yo Yo Ma, the guest of honor. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z It's not often that the violin part enters below the cello part, but that was true here. Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival presents concert of darkness, light 2011-07-28T19:25:04Z A new album of concertos for cello and string orchestra, energetically performed by soloist Nicolas Altstaedt and the British ensemble Arcangelo, flaunts the composer’s sparkling melodies, zigzagging rhythms and shifting moods. CD reviews: Early music on the cutting edge 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z For this program, Dausgaard rearranged the orchestra’s usual configuration, with the second violins trading places with the cellos. Review: Pianist Yefim Bronfman and Seattle Symphony earn thunderous applause 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Lang’s composition, adding cello, viola and percussion, is a kind of analysis of the biblical text, pulling phrases that begin with possessive pronouns. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Song of Songs’ the Beloved Is Beauty 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z A poignant cello melody opened the colorful, communicative piece, which peaked at a heartfelt intensity, woven through with tart writing for brass and winds. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z It’s an apt concept for the group, whose virtuosic players offer composers an ever-expanding sonic palette, and in whose hands a flute or cello may sound as unfamiliar and surprising as a shamisen. Hundreds of New Concertos Bring the World to the Concert Hall 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z But the sinuous, artfully dovetailed string-writing in Lasser’s arrangement — treating the cello soloist as a first among equals — paid handsome dividends. Superb program shows off virtuosic technique 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Here it is a cello concerto equivalent to the “Sacrificial Dance” from Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring.” New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z On his increasingly frequent visits, he takes his niece to his studio to fiddle on his cellos and guitars or to bop to some tune he has created. From empty nest to full house: three generations under one roof 2012-06-08T22:00:57Z Debussy wrote his short cello sonata in 1915, the first of a planned series of six works for diverse instrumental combinations; he finished only three. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Mr. Martin responded with a hard-driven chamber score for brass and cellos. George Martin and the Beatles: A Producer’s Impact, in Five Songs 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The acts included sudden slides; a long unison squeal; a tiny, precious duet of little scratches between the first violin and the cello; and a passage of nearly lilting, Mendelssohnian delicacy. One Night, Several String Quartet Premieres 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z In the final movement, when the unison cellos and basses first played the “Ode to Joy” theme, Mr. Barenboim kept the tempo restrained and the sound almost inaudible. Music Review: West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2013-02-04T23:37:45Z The writing, for baritone and soprano accompanied by cello and flute, often skated surprisingly close to more traditional forms. Two Downtown Luminaries, Still Blazing 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z The Saturday night program was part of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Baroque Conversations series, with the cello soloists also conducting baroque concertos. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Some of the work’s loveliest passages fell to the cello, and Nicholas Canellakis rose to the occasion. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Tully - Review 2011-10-19T22:40:11Z He will be replaced at the Hollywood Bowl by Edgar Moreau, a soloist who plays a more portable instrument: the cello. Have Pipe Organ, Will Travel. Or Maybe Not. 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z And what Mr. Ma plays at moments like those, to make us cry and then soothe us, is, more often than not, a selection from the Bach cello suites. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z This was the cello on which I really learned music. Critic’s Notebook: A Critic Donates His Cello, His Musical Past, to WQXR 2014-04-04T18:05:57Z The piece opens with an ominous hum that sounds uncannily like an orchestral cello section playing a low note tremolando. Review: Annie Gosfield Makes Machines Hum in ‘Electric Sweepers and Vacuum Creepers’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Some reflected the Middle Eastern heritage of Mr. Azmeh, like a traditional Arab piece in which a haunting, evocative clarinet melody unfolded over gentle cello and percussion accompaniment. Music Review: Genres and Styles Without Borders, in a Brooklyn Series 2011-05-10T20:59:29Z Now they've added violin and cello to their lineup and they're more of an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z It begins with a sole cello, soon joined by another, playing short motifs that coalesce into yearning themes and intertwining lines. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z As a teenager, he quit the cello for a number of months, preferring "to grow my hair long and play in a band." Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z There was a quick round of musical chairs before Ravel’s Trio in A minor for piano, violin and cello. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Plays Turina and Ravel 2011-10-07T23:30:07Z Even when the characters are not singing, a few somber notes from the cello or a sprinkling of piano arpeggios give us subtle intimations of the inner turbulence in their souls. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z But what makes the cello particularly fascinating, especially to cello outsiders, is how this instrument resembles the body. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z She turned the offer down, chose a completely different career and hardly touches the cello. Q&A: Rosemary Nalden 2013-05-10T13:14:51Z For example, because you have two cellos and two violins, you can have symmetrical configurations you can’t get with a top-heavy string quartet.” Adventurous JACK Quartet returns to Seattle June 11 2013-06-10T17:48:30Z There was tenderness in their reading of the melancholic second movement and autumnal wistfulness to the luscious melodies of the third, accented by the sea-gull gestures in the cello. New Juilliard Performs Contemporary Music at Summergarden 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z Written for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the eight-minute “Inexorable Passage” felt packed, and moved along with momentum. Review: Iranian Female Composers Speak Indirectly to the Moment 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z As a solo instrument it was long overshadowed by its soprano sibling, the violin, with its glittering trove of repertory, and more recently by its tenor one, the cello, with its dark brown, floor-shaking sonorities. Emanuel Vardi, a Champion of the Viola, Dies at 95 2011-02-07T05:02:48Z For a while Mr. Adasiewicz, instead of mallets, used cello bows. Music Review: Peter Brötzmann and Jason Adasiewicz at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T21:59:32Z Here he leads a seven-piece group that includes tuba and cello. Angel City Jazz Festival lineup looks to past, present and future 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z “This is a cello age,” Mr. Kirshbaum declared, drawing on his academic experience. Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z The bird calls and long, high violin note to start, the offstage trumpets and finally the theme in the cellos had an almost dewy freshness, and the performance rose from there. Momentous Mahler, sprightly Mozart at Seattle Symphony 2012-04-06T16:51:04Z But soon the orchestra needles the cello, as if to make a contentious and contrasting point. Review: She Returns to Lead the Philharmonic. For Real, This Time. 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z It was about irrational outbursts of sound from two sopranos, players sitting at tables hitting all kinds of everyday objects, engineers operating electronic equipment and more outbursts from saxophone, horn, proper percussion and cello. Chicago-based Dal Niente pops up in new L.A. music series called Poolhouse 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z It's a shadowy piece in which the cello accomplishes an arduous, spiritual journey before a festive trumpet strikes up to aid the exhausted soloist across the finishing line. Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review 2013-05-05T15:50:50Z Young, pealing voices sing largely tonal lines over a luminous mix of organ, cello quartet and harp. Music Review: Trinity Church Brings New Music to 9/11 Remembrance 2011-09-09T23:31:31Z The suites become not only the center of cello instruction but life studies. Yo-Yo Ma does the impossible at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z “Everyone in my close circle knows what that cello did to me.” Jenna Ortega Knows What Wednesday Addams Wants 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “Once you start the second movement, the cello plays until the end of the piece,” Schwarz says. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z Starring the Canadian actress Trish Lindström as Billie, a college professor whose mind is slipping, this is a quiet elegy that expresses its yearning in gorgeous strings: bass, guitar, cello and violin. ‘Emojiland’ and a Graceful Elegy at the New York Musical Festival 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z He later studied the organ, cello and other instruments. Kurt Masur, conductor who was a unifying force in a divided Germany, dies at 88 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z The focus is on Hoop's otherworldly voice – communing with lost souls in her former home of Los Angeles, or remembering her mother on her deathbed – while cello and guitar wisp around her. Jesca Hoop: 'I used to live under a tree' 2011-04-06T21:00:00Z “Nodding Yellow” opens with lines for cello that ascend unpredictably. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z As an encore, Mr. Queyras offered a tender rendition of the Sarabande from Bach’s Fourth Suite for solo cello that was dappled with sunlight and shade. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie 2014-12-07T05:00:00Z After downing their brass and mastering violas, cellos and fiddles, the resultant sound spawned the monster hit Come on Eileen. Call that a change of direction? 2010-07-05T20:31:00Z Mr. Ma and the orchestra added a substantial encore, a transcription of the Andante cantabile movement from Tchaikovsky’s First String Quartet for cello and strings. Carnegie Hall Opening Night Gala - Music Review 2011-10-06T12:00:06Z Pleasure is the Law, an adventurous ensemble of flute, oboe, cello and keyboard, will be featured in Messiaen’s “Concert à Quatre.” Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 28-March 6 2014-02-27T23:00:40Z She plucked a name off the list, rented a cello and began lessons. In Middle Age, Reviving Dreams of Playing Music 2012-02-29T22:50:10Z In this case the contrast was between a freely flowing, lyrical cello line and a disciplined, almost marchlike piano part. Elliott Carter, Composer of the Avant-Garde, Dies at 103 2012-11-06T03:06:19Z Quietly magnificent, Moore plays Alice the way Pablo Casals played the cello, with delicate power and masterly vibrato. Review: Still Alice: Julianne Moore Reveals Alzheimer's From the Inside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z That effect was magnified in the program’s main work, “In the Light of Air,” which calls for viola, cello, piano, harp, percussion and electronics, as well as light elements. Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Music Wanders the Park Avenue Armory 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z For all her skill at handling large ensembles, Saariaho’s solos — including this set of miniatures for cello — have a special focus and freedom, a human rather than mythic scale. Kaija Saariaho: 11 Essential Works 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Saturday evening's program certainly reflects a range of styles -- along with Gershwin, you'll hear Ravel's "Bolero," some Beethoven and an electrifying cello piece by Gulda, to be performed by cellist Joshua Roman. Lunch with Gershwin 2011-09-14T22:33:33Z The natural sounds will be accompanied by Britten's solo cello work. Wildlife man records for Britten 2013-02-01T14:49:00Z This year's 12 concerts include more than 70 works, a fifth of them premieres, composed between 1920 and 2010 by 64 composers, and performed by everything from eight cellos to a solo accordion. This week's new live music 2011-01-08T00:06:12Z Before he turned 6, Janos was given a cello; by the time he was 8 he was giving lessons to younger children. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z I was doing a theater piece for the Mabou Mines, it was some Beckett piece, and I wrote him a cello piece, and he liked the work and was playing it. Philip Glass and Beck Discuss Collaborating on ‘Rework’ 2012-10-07T07:23:02Z He started his musical career singing and playing cello, but he switched instruments at 13, when his brother, Rocky, who played guitar, said his band needed a bassist. Dusty Hill, Long-Bearded Bassist for ZZ Top, Dies at 72 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z His album includes a retro-style version of it with acoustic instruments, and that’s how he started it on Thursday, backed by piano and cello. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z On those evenings, Mr. Starker, armed with a chair, his cello and other essential props, took the stage. Janos Starker, Master Cellist, Dies at 88 2013-04-30T15:05:06Z Charlotte Moorman performed the cello wearing a mask of Pablo Casals, miming to a record of his she had underneath the seat. | A Brief History of a Legendary New York Art Building 2013-06-20T22:25:55Z This is heroic music that builds pathos and excitement from the contrast of solo cello and large orchestra playing, yes, fortissimo. Memo to the New York Philharmonic: Louder Isn’t Better 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z In the same year, she entered college as a music student, specializing in the cello, which she’d been playing since she was 10. Charlotte Moorman, Tradition Disrupter, Is the Focus of Two Shows 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z The program opened on an elegiac note with Bill Ryan’s layered cello composition, played by David Moss. Satellite Collective Puts on Varied Program at BAM Fisher 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z This set up the finale's high drama from the piano, answered by the cello, as the dialogue became an elegant trade of flourishes. The Romantic, the modern at Seattle chamber-music fest 2012-07-24T21:01:07Z The lineup included guitar, violin, viola and cello, so they were, in effect, an electric guitar-led string quartet, and played with an idiosyncratic, folksy, contemporary-classical solemnity. Bill Frisell: Sign of Life: Music for the 858 Quartet ? review 2011-08-25T20:46:01Z Speaking from Kansas City, Mo., they talked about their program of cello sonatas by Frank Bridge, Britten, Shostakovich and either Khachaturian or Beethoven, depending on the stop. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “And parents are looking at that and saying, ‘I wanted to start my kid on cello. The Sheku Effect: A Classical Music Star Rises 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Schubert's sole surviving completed movement for string trio, the Allegro in B flat, nevertheless provided a benign, rippling opener, full of characteristically obsessive figurations from the viola and dying falls from the cello. Leopold String Trio/Osborne – review 2012-07-11T17:00:01Z In those days, Brown played cello and sang as part of the school’s strong music program. Forget retirement. Wayne Brown returns to Detroit to run an opera. 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z An extended cello solo puts up a fight to fill the void but eventually succumbs to the silence. Review: Counter)induction at the Church of the Intercession 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z A bright lad who taught himself to play cello and piano, in 1819 he was sent to a school for the blind in Paris, France. Trailblazers Louis Braille and Helen Keller opened new world to blind people 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Campbell occasionally tugged on those threads, vibrating the violin strings independently of his instrument; at other points, he alternately bowed the connective threads and the cello’s strings. Review: A Portrait Reveals a Composer With a Dramatic Edge 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z I was like, ‘Alright, well then why don’t you sit in with our cello section on ‘Mission Impossible’?” Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z He was invited by Yo-Yo Ma to write a work for cello and jazz band, which was performed by the cellist and the Kollektief on a live TV broadcast in 1992. Willem Breuker obituary 2010-07-29T17:27:00Z He finally settled on the cello, an unusual instrument in jazz. David Baker, jazz scholar, composer and conductor, dies at 84 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Despite the flash of humor when Bill lost patience with the lawyer, his thread was notably, almost comically somber, right down to the cello leitmotif that accompanied it. 'True Blood' Recap: The Sickness and the Cure 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z There was nothing he didn’t do to or with the cello. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The instruments ranged from cello and piano to a sextet that also included violin, viola, flute, clarinet and percussion. An evening of sophisticated new Spanish music 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z Stealthy and subtle, its central threesome of soloists — piano, violin and cello, as in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto — finds oases of calm amid flares of intensity from the orchestra. Hear the Piece That Won One of Music’s Biggest Prizes 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Childlike Heike doesn’t just marry a beekeeper, she plays the cello like a dream. Review | In ‘The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls,’ a tidal wave strikes, and a small town must pick up the pieces 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z The theater can pick up the sound and it becomes the sounding board, like the body of your cello. After 50 Years at the Met Opera, Paul Plishka Retires (Again) 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Most of the piece is a sort of chaconne, in eight-measure segments over an octave ostinato that begins in the cello. Review | San Francisco’s Amaranth Quartet offers world premieres in its D.C. debut 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z Mulroney sits in the back of the cello section as the 11th chair and just tries to keep up with the master artists around him. Dermot Mulroney's role in 'Rogue One': playing cello on the soundtrack 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z "We began stumbling around trying to find the most fun or confusing songs to perform on the cello to play with people's perceptions." In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z One day Ben peeks in her window and glimpses her: She’s naked and seems to be playing a cello. New life for the underground hit ‘The Never-Open Desert Diner’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Throughout the concert, the higher-pitched voices in the quartet were as powerful as the cellos. Review: With Owls, Classical Is Alive and Well and Living in a Crypt 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Now that spring is finally here, winter is coming: the synth cello, the Seven Kingdoms, the monsters, princes, dragons, women warriors, and legions of eunuchs. Season 5 of “Game of Thrones” 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Over in the corner, a musician named Wytold was whipping up his own windstorm on an electric cello. Breathtaking ‘By the Inch’ at the American Dance Institute Although it is scored for just a handful of instruments, with piano and cello dominant, Mr. Schmidt’s music has ample texture and variety. | 'A Minister's Wife': Three Hearts Butt Heads in One Marriage 2011-05-09T02:01:03Z They then did the same with Ma’s cello, to create layers that would accompany him as he played live. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Alternatively loud and lyrical, using a dulcimer strung with barbed wire and crutches played like a cello as well as a string quartet, "Lament" portrays the horror of the 1914-18 war without patriotism or nostalgia. German industrial band raises ghosts of World War One in 'Lament' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The meditative, texturally rich landscapes of “In the Light of Air” for viola, cello, harp, piano, percussion and electronics by this young Icelandic composer are haunting, beautiful and unsettling by turns. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The richly hued work, for Da Capo’s core formation of piano, violin, cello, flute and clarinet, colorfully traversed insistent, frantic and introspective moods. Music Review: Da Capo Players at Merkin Hall, Musing on Night 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z Last year, in Chicago, he unveiled one result of his labors: a cello concerto, written for Yo-Yo Ma. Classical Music’s Chief Visionary Goes West Again 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Even Shirley’s pop-oriented music was a technical marvel: He braided bits of classical études into Tin Pan Alley songs, orchestrating it all for an atypical trio of piano, cello and bass. Who Was Don Shirley? ‘Green Book’ Tries to Solve the Mystery 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z Whether bearding the classics with hippity-hoppity horns or playing ineffably beautiful sustains on violin, cello and bass, ICP always offers something you didn't expect. ICP Orchestra brings zany Dutch mischief to SAM 2011-04-07T20:50:36Z Yo-Yo Ma is wonderful, a fine, fine cello player. Confirm or Deny: Jaron Lanier 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z An elusive cello melody unfurled to delicately meshed pictures of swans and other white birds. Music Review: Bang on a Can All-Stars’ ‘Rimpa Reimagined’ 2012-12-10T23:08:45Z In Croatia, there are not enough cello teachers or cellos in music school because of what we did. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Far more than the top-heavy quartet, with its two violins offset by a single viola and a cello, a sextet offers perfect symmetry, balance and flexibility. Music Review: At Merkin Concert Hall, Concertante Blends New and Old 2010-05-18T21:26:00Z It’s a work of both desolate sadness and desperate tedium for violin and cello, just barely breathed into life, in almost total darkness, by Tarn Travers and Chris Wild. Review: Ensemble Dal Niente Brings Its Intense Whimsy to the DiMenna Center 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z A rhapsodizing solo viola, its range between the violins and cello, is the ideal alter-ego for both Hannahs, the inquisitive Before and the soul-searching After. 'As One,' the every(wo)man transgender opera 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z If it’s played with these instruments, next to the cello solo you hear all the other lower strings: the cellos and violas, and then later the oboe and bassoon. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z The novel slow movement is like a trio for solo violin, solo cello and, eventually, the piano, that morphs subtly into a concerto movement. The Mariinsky in Two All-Russian Programs at Carnegie Hall 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The humorous piece, written in 1991, when Mr. Adès was a student, is scored for piano, violin, cello and clarinet: The first three instruments cajole the clarinetist into joining the proceedings. Review: Axiom Displays Its New-Music Range at Alice Tully Hall 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Here was a ship heading toward the Iron Islands, and, beneath it, a cloaked man on a platform playing a cello while stamping in water, making it splash this way and that. Music Is Coming: “Game of Thrones” Live at Madison Square Garden 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z The music has something to do with a generously lush four-dimensional cello sound. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z As for the Renaissance instrument, it was a viola da gamba, a bowed string instrument which he continues to play today, and which he first encountered in the studio of his seventh-grade cello teacher. Maker to Know: A Ceramist Creating Insect-Adorned Plates 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z When he starts singing, in an easy, unforced baritone, his vocals are matched by unlikely arrangements with unexpected global influences from a band that features ukulele, violin, cello and trumpet. Celebrating Sanctuary – review 2012-06-19T16:34:54Z Investment in a cello or viola would make an enormous positive difference. Review: Steve Tyrell Keeps a Comfortable Pop-Swing Style in Honoring Sinatra 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Born in Philadelphia, Soyer was from an unmusical but distinguished family – his father, Moses, and uncles Raphael and Isaac were Russian-born artists – and was 11 before he took up the cello. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z Then Ma, far from any major concert hall and hundreds of miles from his home in Cambridge, Mass., stood with his cello propped up by its endpin and played a Bach Sarabande. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z He is consistently aware of what he refers to as “Mortality like/a cello inside him.” Books of The Times: ?Collected Poems? by Jack Gilbert 2012-03-13T12:00:00Z The model for this moment is clear: Very softly, in the cellos and basses, is how the “Ode to Joy” is introduced in Beethoven’s Ninth. Review: A Shostakovich Symphony Finally Reaches the Philharmonic 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z These are cheerful one-movement quartets for two violins, cello and organ, originally written to be performed during a church service and, for obvious reasons of instrumentation, seldom performed today. Review | A well-hidden Bach festival offers cheerful relief on a summer afternoon 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z There's more here than we've heard on TV, but the tinkling bells and cellos of Hungry Face and unsettling guitar intro to The Huts work perfectly over a full-length album. Mogwai: Les Revenants – review 2013-07-25T20:45:00Z Girls were playing violin and cello; so what they were saying was that we can’t be like the Rolling Stones. Joan Jett: ‘When I’m away I FaceTime my two cats’ 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Because traditional Chinese string instruments play in the treble range, cellos and double basses join the vertically held gaohus and erhus to fill out the string section. Opera Review: East Meets West at Macao Festival 2011-10-25T11:30:08Z Elsewhere — in Mr. Talbot’s “Motion Detector,” for example — she seemed to be creating the backdrop live, using a pedal to record and play loops of cello figuration, and building them into a dense texture. Music Review: East Meets Farther East When the Aural Mirrors the Visual 2011-03-14T23:00:14Z But the music conveying this image seemed anything but rudderless, with slashing, dissonant piano chords, toccata-like streams of rushing notes from the violin, and buzzes and sputters from the cello. Review: The Hazy Mysteries of Love at Lincoln Center 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Now the community is in distress, she said as she sat with her cello on her porch Tuesday. Here’s the good some are doing to combat the fear and isolation of the coronavirus 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z What better place to perform music that took the piano/cello combination to new heights? Next at the Tractor Tavern: fortepiano and cello 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s fun to hear Mozart sucking up to the king with the cello parts he’d written, because the king was a cello player.” Spare Times for Children for May 3-May 9 2013-05-02T23:06:46Z When a girl named Maddie phoned in from her hospital bed to reveal that she plays cello too, Ma stuck his face right into the camera and had a one-on-one chat with her. Yo-Yo Ma helps launch Citizen Musician movement 2011-01-30T22:21:00Z Musical details, including sketches of cellos and violins woven into carpets, are featured throughout the hotel, as are caricatures of prominent musical figures by the Czech artist Josef Blecha. In Budapest, a Hotel of a Different Note 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The BCMG's first concert in its new season includes another premiere: the first complete performance of A Knot Of Time, a cycle for soprano and an ensemble of clarinet, viola, cello and double bass. This week's new live music 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z At the beginning, a strict metronomic "ticking" in the piano is combined with a rhapsodically unfolding line in the cello. Elliott Carter 2012-11-06T03:26:13Z I would dearly have loved to find a home for Bridge's late masterpiece for cello and orchestra, Oration, and the remarkable third and fourth string quartets. Backstage no longer: Frank Bridge at the Proms 2011-08-04T21:30:01Z “We want to show the possibilities of cello playing,” Mr. Sulic said before the show. Classical Crossover for the Win 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z All three produced remarkable work: Ibragimova's wonderful range of colour and her breathtaking pianissimo; Gerhardt's much more matter-of-fact cello sound but utterly secure musicianship; Osborne's bright, forward pianism, its articulation crystal clear. Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:21Z Rather than merely repeating that theme, the cello claims it, takes charge and points the music down an exploratory path. Review: Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich, in a Stirring Concert at the Frick 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Instead, Washburn formed the Sparrow Quartet, a chamber ensemble featuring the highly unusual combination of violin, cello and two banjos. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z The recital opened and closed with two works for cello and piano by jazz composers, “Tango Bittersweet” by Mr. Hersch, a pianist known for his improvisations, and “Spin” by Mr. Byron, the clarinetist. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z Unlike Brahms' famous double concerto, the violin and cello in Horner's piece don't challenge the orchestra or, for that matter, each other in a combative dialogue. Bowl concert plays as an elegy to James Horner, and an ode to composers of movie music 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z After a slow, four-minute monologue for solo cello, the concerto takes flight in luminous strings and a yearning, gently rising theme played by Gabetta with extraordinary tenderness. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z There were concertos for various instruments and concertante pieces including his Actaeon for orchestra and solo horn, and his Sonnets to Orpheus for orchestra and solo cello. Composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett dies aged 76 2012-12-25T14:46:08Z Ms. Griffin said her role was “more landscape-y, more like a cello or a flute.” With a Nod to His Past, Plant Moves On Again 2010-09-05T00:14:00Z But she suggested he switch to the viola, for which the cello suites were transcribed and first published in the early 20th century. Antoine Tamestit Plays Concert for Mostly Mozart Festival 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z In the Journey soundtrack, I wanted the cello part to undergo a metamorphosis that exactly mirrors what the player is going through. Are video game soundtracks the new concept albums? 2012-05-28T13:56:00Z The first movement begins with the cello playing a sustained pitch so softly as to be almost inaudible. Review: Ligeti Forward Celebrates a Master Modern Composer 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The rest of the program was played by a large group, in Baroque terms: eight violins, two violas, two cellos, bass, Baroque guitar, theorbo and harpsichord. Music Review: Baroque 4x4 Festival at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church 2012-08-28T21:04:06Z In the original quartet the tension between the Grim Reaper and the maiden is expressed by the tussle between the violin and the cello in the Andante’s variations. Music Review: Reliving Schubert?s Classic Tussle With Death 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z Still, Martinu’s first cello sonata, written around the same time, was also a remarkable burst of energy. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Two people are buying him cellos, one valued at up to $20,000 and another that will be specially made for him, valued at more than $30,000. ‘I’ve been crying all day ... happy tears’: Young cellist with tormented past is in disbelief at over $141,000 in donations 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Kitt: I made the cello solo from the original track into a vocal arrangement so that line is actually being sung by the actors. How Broadway Got the Beat: The Go-Go’s in 5 Songs 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z My son's 20 min cello lesson will now cost in the region of £17 … I think this is way above market/MU rate. Music education cuts in Bedfordshire show what's at stake nationwide 2011-03-24T14:45:25Z On the podcast, he recalled being asked to recruit a trio for one production: cello, violin, piano. Seymour Press, a Behind-the-Scenes Fixture on Broadway, Dies at 98 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Merritt's labyrinthine catalogue contains experiments with everything from synthesisers to distortion, but here the minimal instrumentation and predominance of cello and Merritt's ukulele means the songs start to sound samey, even like a schtick. The Magnetic Fields | Pop review 2010-03-21T21:45:00Z On Sunday, Mr. Adlercreutz tried a different tactic: he posted a video of himself on social media playing a patriotic Ukrainian song on the cello to mark the conflict’s 500th day. A Finnish Official Plays the Cello to Support Ukraine, Irking Russia 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Acoustic instruments — cello, guitar — carry the staccato arrangement, but the chorus still works up a hefty beat and an “eye-yi-yi-eyes” vocal hook. Ed Sheeran Lets His Tears Flow on ‘-’ 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z Glass's scoring includes oriental instruments – the Chinese pipa, the Japanese shakuhachi – alongside flute, cello and percussion, and the vocal lines are spare and conversational. The Sound of a Voice – review 2012-08-24T15:26:02Z One neighbor played his cello, another her guitar, and yet another neighbor’s toddler daughter served as the ring bearer. Revelry on the Rooftops 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z The profound, introspective work written in memory of Tchaikovsky uses the two cellos to beautiful effect, adding depth and darkness without heaviness. Kennedy Center Chamber Players present unusual, rarely heard music 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z I always ask, “What is your feeling when you hear a cello?” and everyone says, “Mellow.” Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z It’s a page that is unusually sparse for Brahms, alternating between music for the violin and cello, in duet, and the piano alone. A Lullaby, a Caress: Yo-Yo Ma, Ax and Kavakos on Brahms 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z He reworked Vivaldi's violin concertos for keyboard and orchestra; he also recast his own music to suit pragmatic ends, so what was once a lute suite ended up the next week rewritten for solo cello. Bach in business 2010-07-29T20:45:00Z Before you were making films, you played the cello. “The World Is, of Course, Insane”: An Interview with Errol Morris 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z There are four violas, instead of violins, and no cellos or basses. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW Performs ?De Staat? at Zankel Hall 2010-05-11T22:20:00Z There's an outlandish car chase that, with Kara's cello case doubling as a toboggan, morphs into a yet more outlandish ski chase. My favourite Bond film: The Living Daylights 2012-10-05T09:48:12Z You could argue that younger performers are expanding the boundaries of technique in other instruments as well, especially the violin and the cello. Virtuosos Becoming a Dime a Dozen 2011-08-12T13:09:23Z When a sad event occurs, you can practically score the mournful sound of the cello that follows. Review: ‘Long Story Short,’ Till Death Do Us Part 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z “The cello,” he said, “can be anything that I want it to be.” Abdul Wadud’s Cosmic Cello Music Gets Another Moment in the Sun 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z "The cello and baseball were my two loves. I was a catcher," he recalled. Robert deMaine's sobering journey to be L.A. Phil's principal cellist 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z After that, it crescendos to a single sforzando, and then still there is a sforzando in the cellos twice in the final bars. Semyon Bychkov on Tchaikovsky’s Protest Against Death 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z The series of single-movement works began with Chorus and Orchestra I and II, and included works for string quartet, flute, oboe and cello before ending in 1979 with Violin and Orchestra. Feldman: Violin and Orchestra – review 2013-05-16T21:14:01Z The No. 4 seems important to the piece: the sides of the square, number of cellos, dreams of China. Review: License and Restriction in a Work by La Monte Young at Dia Chelsea 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Marling sings with lean, responsive accompaniment: cello, violin, keyboards, bass and drums. Review: On Laura Marling’s ‘Short Movie,’ Songs of Restlessness and Solitude 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Radin is joined on stage by a band including cello, double bass and three young female backing singers who are so awkward, they look like they were press-ganged into joining glee club. Joshua Radin 2010-04-12T21:30:00Z An image of inadequate shelter in collapse, these miniature homes suggested another motif, seen again in a one-walled tent, whose wire struts were bowed like a cello. Performa 17: Absurd Times, Absurd Acts 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z On the program are string quartets by Philip Glass and Meredith Monk as well as the premiere of a cello solo by Caleb Burhans, played by Clarice Jensen, the ensemble’s artistic director. In the Garden, With Strings, at the Noguchi Museum 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z On cello he fashioned equally imaginative elaborations on themes from Bizet’s “Carmen” and ended with a reeling reinvention of “Bring Me to Life,” a bombastic emo-metal anthem by the rock band Evanescence. Music Review: The Here and Now Series at Bargemusic - Review 2011-09-04T23:02:52Z Directly after that cinematic glory, Ma enlarged Elgar's plaintive solo cello opening to Bowl-filling majesty, making it sound not just a loud cry in the wilderness but also a call to arms. Yo-Yo Ma is marvelous during a strange night at Hollywood Bowl 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z She studied musical composition at Centenary College in Shreveport, La., but also trained as an instrumentalist and in 1957 moved to New York to study the cello at Juilliard. Nam June Paik’s Work at Asia Society 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z The scrapbooks also contain childhood paintings and tell of Hemingway playing the cello, suiting up for a “lightweight” football squad and taking up boxing. Mother’s scrapbooks give peek into Hemingway’s early life 2013-07-20T21:29:25Z The sweetness of Soltani’s playing on the highest string made the piece work for the cello in a way it sometimes does not. The bar was set high for Austrian cellist Kian Soltani, and his latest recital delivered 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Helmut Lachenmann's solo, "Pression," played with rapt percussive presence by Michael Kaufman, explores sounds the cello isn't supposed to make, be they ethereal scraping of the strings or industrial level strumming and banging. Music ensembles Hocket and Sakura bathe Monk Space in an acoustical glow 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Annie Gosfield introduced “Burn Again With a Low Blue Flame,” her piece for cello and electronics beholden to that droning truck. Bargemusic’s Here and Now Series Offers Winter Festival 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It was a clever, entertaining idea and proof, if any was needed, that the soulful cello can attract a crowd and satisfy it. Music Review: ‘The Cellists of Lincoln Center’ at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-23T20:05:39Z Ms. Weilerstein took over the cello part of the orchestral program on Sunday, playing Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme in the enhanced virtuosity of the Fitzenhagen edition, traversing the difficulties with seeming ease. Critic?s Notebook: Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in Los Angeles 2012-03-20T22:13:34Z The piano and cello were on to “Tea for Two” and I was sinking back into my comfy chair, loving the scene. Tea for one! Enjoying London’s top afternoon tea spots on a solo trip. 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Much of the work is dissonant, there is little that's hummable, but it holds the interest with orchestral textures, harp and percussion accents and the ever-present cello soliloquizing above it all. A symphonic evening with Morlot and the French masters 2012-03-16T17:21:04Z He shapes the metal oven trays with an electric saw to form the body of a violin and engineers cellos from oil barrels. Paraguayan landfill orchestra makes sweet music from rubbish 2013-04-26T14:02:55Z The Mendelssohn Piano Trio traversed all three of Schubert’s mature pieces for piano, violin, and cello at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday. Trio shows Schubert’s challenges 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Goldston later played cello in her school’s orchestra, taking private lessons on the side. Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z While the SCO numbered roughly 20 players at the start, it now boasts 62 musicians, including a recently added cello section. Seattle Chinese Orchestra helps East meet West in April 20 concert 2012-04-11T22:31:05Z When the cellos and basses broke into the fragmented phrases that coalesce into a theme, the playing was demonic. Music Review: Finding the Right Pace (and Support Crew) for a Marathon 2010-10-22T22:44:00Z Byrd hit a high point last year with his evening-length “Love,” a high-intensity, ever-shifting tableau of connections, dissolutions, stirrings, recognitions, yearnings and submissions that unfolded to live performances of Benjamin Britten’s three cello suites. Spectrum Dance Theater stages new ‘Autopsy of Love’ 2013-06-13T21:23:10Z I also practice in a dark room because the concerto opens with a dark sound on bass and cello. Teen violinist Mari? Rossano to solo on Shostakovich with Seattle Phil 2011-04-07T19:29:04Z Stranger and more memorable was the elegant performance of the other work that followed, Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 2 in A minor, with its unexpected dissonances, its stormy first-movement flurries in the cello and viola. Music Review: At Mozart Festival, Dvorak and Others Shine 2011-08-08T21:55:50Z The opening march’s headlong momentum was frighteningly articulated, with the bows of cellos crunching against strings. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Kearney ranges all over her instrument, alternately sounding like a viola, cello or bass. Kanye, Jay-Z head the list of new CDs 2011-08-22T22:12:30Z It’s substantial, and like much of Boccherini, who wrote 110 cello quintets, deserves more exposure. Lincoln Center ensemble lets the cello be the star | Classical review 2013-05-08T17:59:35Z Those numbers include five violins in the first section, four in the second section, three violas, two cellos and the bass: a small string orchestra, essentially. American String Project thinks big at Benaroya Hall 2010-05-12T22:57:00Z Mr. Schuller wrote for unusual instrumental combinations, such as four double basses or four cellos. Gunther Schuller, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who bridged jazz and classical music, dies at 89 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Featuring a violin, mandolin, cello, drums and stand-up bass, Miracles Of Modern Science sound familiar, but at the same time highlight talents becoming rarer and rarer to find in modern music. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z No one would mind if a comedian suddenly whipped out a cello and played for half an hour – if it was done well. The great comedy ambush 2013-01-09T19:00:02Z This wily, offbeat group features four woodwinds, two cellos, viola, bass and drums. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z That's what this cello festival is about: the ability to recognize and celebrate the artistry of many different cellists from all over the world. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Paul Watkins was the soloist here, wonderfully contained and stoically insistent in a work that depicts the cello as a heroic, unflinching champion of individuality against the threats and menace of the orchestra. Prom 8: BBCSO/Adès - review 2013-07-18T09:58:27Z The volume and intensity of the ensemble rose, with howling spikes in the violins and tapping on the bodies of the cellos. Music Review: Orchestra of the League of Composers at Miller Theater 2012-06-05T21:54:39Z The cello enters on its lowest string, and rises with open fifths. We Heard Our First Live Music in Months. Nothing Beats It. 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z At first the music is “carried by this combination of solo cello and the radio waves again,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: Scoring ‘Gravity’ 2014-02-05T21:24:28Z My dad used to be an instrument maker — violin, cello. New Jersey Symphony’s New Director on Defining Her Own Sound 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But there was a reward as they paddled to shore and saw Ma there, playing his cello on the sandy riverbank. Yo-Yo Ma Is Finding His Way Back to Nature Through Music 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z You don't expect the show to be stolen by a cello sonata. SSO cellist Efe Baltacigil shines in chamber-music fest 2012-07-18T23:47:07Z Music director Andra Velis Simon says the two shows’ promenade staging precludes the use of large instruments such as a piano or even a cello. A ‘Mikado’ for a modern age — minus Japan, but complete with a bar 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z As a youth, Brian sang in his church choir and played the piano, cello and trombone. Brian Asawa, Celebrated Countertenor and Pathbreaker at the Met, Dies at 49 2016-04-23T04:00:00Z If it weren't for all those kooky cellos, this could be a serial killer flick. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z Our pulses quickened to an electronic beat, a cello’s moan, until: Oh! A Summer of Buzzing Bugs, Tunes or Mets’ Losses 2013-08-29T21:54:01Z The guitar-oriented band still occasionally incorporates cello and keys and, on "Enemy" for the first time, a horn section and sunny doo-wop vocals. Built to Spill stays true to its indie roots 2010-11-19T02:01:00Z Accompanied by a plaintive cello melody, the scene is easily overplayed. An Unassuming Prince Dons the Velvet Cloak at Ballet Theater 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Debussy’s slow waltz “La Plus Que Lente,” a solo piano work played here in an arrangement for cello and piano, raised the curtain on a driven, sometimes fiery account of the composer’s Cello Sonata. Music Review | Jean-Guihen Queyras: Muscular Renditions of Bach, Schubert and Debussy 2010-03-08T22:19:00Z Between them, the American Contemporary Music Ensemble string quartet gently bopped bows against violins and cello, keeping time with the sinuous mechanized pulse. Craig Leon Rerecords Two Synth Classics 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z More disconcerting was the work of some of the professionals in the society’s orchestra, particularly in a crucial cello solo near the end, tortured at considerable length, and among the vocal soloists. Music Review: Tritle Leads Oratorio Society in ?Paulus? 2010-05-11T22:12:00Z The “Girls” star plays Charlotte, a former cello prodigy who abandoned her dreams years ago to care for her ailing mother. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Halloween’ and ‘The Perfection’ 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z The third movement opens with held chords in the strings, a richness with its base in Ms. Robinson’s cello. Music Review: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Plays Arvo Pärt 2012-11-19T22:51:43Z Deaf Center is a Norwegian duo who play piano and cello with long tones, far-reaching sustain, carefully overlapping dissonances and wizardly use of audio space. Pistol Annies, YOB, Deaf Center, Paul Simon 2011-12-17T02:43:15Z Poised richness in the cellos and basses opened Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides” overture. Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z There were some nicely drawn textures in “By The Brook” — the solo cellos audible for a change and the gentle woodwind dissonances toward the end just right. Despite some standout playing, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra struggles at cohesion “She’d captivate a whole room of metalheads with nothing but the power of instrumental cello improvisation. She is quite magical.” Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Interplay Concert A string quartet from Pacific Symphony and a cello ensemble from Chapman University perform. The week ahead in L.A. classical music, Oct. 22-29: Berlioz, Philip Glass and more 2017-10-22T04:00:00Z There are more role models than these, especially with a young generation of fearlessly passionate experimenters, such as Séverine Ballon, whose solo Monday Evening Concerts recital in March was a fearless display of cello physicality. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Rostropovich called Bach’s sixth suite, which concluded the program on Thursday, “a symphony for solo cello.” Istvan Vardai Plays Bach at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-05-25T04:00:00Z Anthony Ross, the orchestra’s principal cellist, played the students a Mark Summer piece that he said was popular with cello students in America. Minnesota Orchestra’s Cuba Trip Puts It at the Cultural Vanguard 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z You learned to play the cello for this movie. Chloë Grace Moretz Talks 'If I Stay' 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z On May 23, 1805, he participated in a concert in the Hanover Rooms, along with his brother, who played a Romberg cello concerto. The Black Violinist Who Inspired Beethoven 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Two violas, with cello, are pitted against two viols, with violone. There’s More Religion Than You Think in Bach’s ‘Brandenburgs’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Guitars, cellos, flutes, saxophones and trumpets will be in the “Instrument Petting Zoo” at this free open house at the community arts school at the Kaufman Music Center. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Several works derived color from little brass flourishes; six featured cello pizzicato passages. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z Lovers of violins, violas, cellos and all things stringy have one more chance to catch the American String Project at Benaroya Hall. The Week Ahead: Folklife and Sasquatch festivals are arts highlights 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z The frenzy dissolves into a quiet Adagio, with a mournful cello melody echoed by the horn, representing Pentheus facing death. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z The festival closes with Beethoven's complete works for cello, each performed by a different cellist. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z It is hard to understand why the inertly shimmering Orientalism of “Going to School” from “Memoirs of a Geisha” was included, other than to showcase a characteristically enthusiastic cello solo from Yo-Yo Ma. Music Review: John Williams Birthday Concert at Tanglewood 2012-08-19T21:48:18Z But his writing here was sharply focused, carefully shaped and attuned to coloristic possibilities of the piano, violin and cello. Music: June in Buffalo Celebrates 35th Anniversary 2010-06-04T21:58:00Z Since picking up the cello at age 4, he has recorded more than 75 albums and performed for six American presidents, including a performance at the 2009 inauguration of Mr. Obama. ArtsBeat Blog: Meryl Streep, Neil Diamond and Yo-Yo Ma Among Kennedy Center Honorees 2011-09-07T15:02:01Z But if doesn’t have a good melody, and it’s lyrics based, it’s hard to make something special on the cello. They’re just a typical Michael Jackson-, Hendrix-, AC/DC-covering cello duo 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z And there’s a long, triolike section in which a solo piano is slowly, impassionedly joined by a cello, a violin and a piccolo. Los Angeles Philharmonic Plays Gorecki’s Fourth Symphony 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z “I don’t have a gun, but I have my cello.” An Orchestra Supports Ukraine, and Reunites a Couple Parted by War 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z It included the West Coast premiere of a convivial new Double Concerto for violin and cello, written for Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson, with an irresistibly songful slow movement. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Last year Washburn acquired a cello banjo: a rare, low-pitched instrument originally manufactured in the early 20th century during the short-lived craze for banjo orchestras. Abigail Washburn: fingerpicking good bluegrass with Chinese flavouring 2011-01-20T23:08:01Z “There’s something earthy and deathlike about the cello, isn’t there?” ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The son of a professional violist and an admired arts administrator, Mr. Arron took up the cello at 7. Music Review: Drawing on Fond Childhood Memories for a Pairing of Beethoven and Berio 2010-12-20T22:56:51Z The second movement climaxed in the piano’s softly conclusive, consoling line, setting off a spiral of light calligraphy in the cello — a passage of superbly unified playing. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z In the hypnotic instrumental “Fiddle Tune” Mr. Ellis tapped on the cello as Mr. Sollee evoked the euphoria of finding a comfortable groove while whizzing down the road. Music Review: Ben Sollee at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 2013-04-21T21:09:07Z His shaping of the accompaniments to the singers' phrases was extraordinarily sensitive; listen to the gorgeous flow of cellos driving the love duet. Triumphant 'Otello' marks Muti's return to CSO 2011-04-08T16:30:00Z She played piano and cello, and joined a Baroque recorder quartet in high school. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The BBC Philharmonic has considerably more than that; yet the softly plucked cellos in the lullaby-like slow movement had the stealth and tenderness of a parent tiptoeing away from a sleeping child. BBC Phil/Storgårds – review 2013-06-14T16:30:56Z The repeating underlying passacaglia theme was set forth by harpsichord, cello and bass; there were duets, a pizzicato episode, violins questioning and answering each other, a lot of dynamic contrasts. Bernard Labadie's welcome return to Disney Hall 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “Echoi,” for clarinet, cello, percussion and piano, draws on the kind of chance strategies that John Cage had made increasingly famous through the 1950s. Eight Ways of Looking at a Singular Composer 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z When Mr. Dudamel went to greet some young musicians in the cello section, they burst into exciting bobbing. ArtsBeat: A Musical Exchange in Venezuela: El Sistema Performs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic 2012-02-17T00:04:15Z The latter is particularly full of Chamberlin music, including oboes, violins and cellos on opening track Monday, flutes on Knock Yourself Out, solo voice on Cubes, and strings on Later Monday. From goat's testicles to the waterphone: cinema's unlikely soundtracks 2013-05-10T06:00:00Z The concerto lurches from episode to episode, with the cello at first playing plaintive, elusive melodic lines, interrupted with panicky scurrying figures, atop gurgling ripples in the percussion. Matthias Pintscher Conducts in the NY Phil Biennial 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z The eleven composers and seven musicians — on flute, clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello and percussion — all are from the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, New York. Musicians harmonize with nature for outdoor audiences — including snakes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Although I was sitting quite close to stage, everything on the fortepiano sounded like little more than a shadow of the cello. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps if the cello and piano score weren’t so difficult, these lieux would already have found their place in the repertory. Thomas Adès and the L.A. Phil find life in the Dance of Death 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z This weekend’s performances were devoted to Fisk’s own guitar transcriptions of Bach’s six suites for solo cello. Guitarist Eliot Fisk impresses with his uncanny ability to convey Bach’s polyphony 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z |
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